Samuel Sloan may refer to:

• Samuel Sloan (architect) (1815–1884), Philadelphia-based architect and author of architecture books
• Samuel Sloan (railroad executive) (1817–1907), American politician and businessman, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
• Sam Sloan (Samuel Howard Sloan, born 1944), American chess player and publisher

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Samuel Howard Sloan (born September 7, 1944), also known as Haji Mohammed Ismail Sloan, is an American chess player and publisher. In 2006, Sloan served on the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation. In 1970, Sloan established a registered broker-dealer that traded over-the-counter stocks and bonds. Sloan had no formal legal training but orally argued a case before the Supreme Court after litigating against the Securities and Exchange Commission over policies regarding the trading of penny stocks.^[1] The Court ruled in his favor, 9–0, concerning his claim that the "tacking" of 10-day summary suspension orders for an indefinite period was an abuse of the agency's authority and a deprivation of due process. In 2010, Sloan made an unsuccessful bid for the Libertarian Party (LP) nomination in the 2010 New York gubernatorial election. He also made an unsuccessful bid for the Libertarian nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 election.

Early life and education[link]

Sloan was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1944 to attorney Leroy Bayfield Sloan and doctor Marjorie Jacobson Sloan.^[2][3] His family later moved to Lynchburg, and attended E.C. Glass High School. Sloan studied chess from an early age, and dropped out of the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in mathematics, but not earning a degree.

Career[link]

After leaving Berkeley, Sloan worked two years for the Wall Street investment banking firm of Hayden, Stone & Co. in the over-the-counter trading department. In 1970, he established Samuel H. Sloan & Co., a registered broker-dealer primarily trading over-the-counter stocks and bonds. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought civil actions against Sloan & Co. in 1971–1975 alleging he had failed to maintain adequate books and records. In 1975, the SEC revoked Sloan's broker-dealer registration. After years of litigation, Sloan in 1978 prevailed in the U.S. Supreme Court. Sloan argued the case pro se even though he was not an attorney. The opposing attorney was Harvey Pitt, who was later Chairman of the SEC from 2001 to 2003. Sloan won before the U.S. Supreme Court 9–0. Sloan is the last non-lawyer to argue before the court.^[4][5][6]

Sloan has written an extensive lexicon of Khowar, a language spoken in Chitral, Pakistan.^[7] Sloan had a minor role in a commercially-produced film, that later became a video game, Mahjong Hōrōki Classic.^[8] He is now primarily a publisher of books and DVDs about chess, go and other subjects.^{[citation needed]}

Sloan is a chess journalist^{[citation needed]} and author. He has claimed^{[citation needed]} that when he was playing for U.C. Berkeley in the late 1960s, he was for a time playing at master strength, but he was never officially rated as such in the United States. His current U.S.C.F. rating is 1900. He claims to have traveled to 78 countries, primarily attending chess tournaments. He has claimed to have "won the World Championship of Chinese Chess in Beijing, China, in 1988."^[9] He is rated an FM (equivalent to FIDE Master) by the World Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) Association.^[10] Sloan has competed in tournaments in Thai (Makrook) and Japanese (Shogi) chess.

Three interviews of Sloan are incorporated in the documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World.

Activities since 2005[link]

From 2002 to 2006, Sloan was active in the Libertarian Party of New York attempting to influence its policy agenda and candidate nominations. In an April 30, 2006, email to Michael Badnarik's 2004 presidential campaign mailing list, an individual claiming to be Sloan announced his intention to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for Governor of New York State.^[11] In 2006 Sloan was elected as an officer to the Manhattan Libertarian Party County Committee as Director of Media Relations. He was not re-elected to that position in 2007. He was a delegate to the 2008 Libertarian National Convention and the 2010 Libertarian National Convention. On May 25, 2008 in Denver, Colorado, Sloan was nominated to the National Committee of the Libertarian Party and made a speech addressing the Libertarian National Convention.^[12]

Election to USCF Board[link]

In July 2006, Sloan was elected to the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation (USCF). He advocated a major expansion of scholastic chess, stating that the USCF should establish a program to certify school chess teachers. He criticized the USCF's recent move from New Windsor, New York to Crossville, Tennessee. As second-place finisher (out of five) in the special election, Sloan was elected to a one-year term on the board (the first-place finisher received a three-year term). Sloan's term of service began in August 2006. In 2007, Sloan ran for reelection to the USCF Executive Board, but was unsuccessful, finishing a distant ninth out of ten candidates. On October 2, 2007, Sloan filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to overturn the results of the 2007 USCF, and alleging that more than 2,000 obscene "Fake Sam Sloan" newsgroup postings prior to the election had been made by a rival candidate.^[13] On August 28, 2008, US District Judge Denny Chin dismissed the suit with prejudice pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1), 12(b)(2) and 12(b)(6).^[14] The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal but modified it, saying that it was "without prejudice" as the case had not gone to a hearing.

USENET postings incident[link]

On April 3, 2008, posts appeared on USENET, apparently placed by Mr. Sloan, claiming that some of his websites had been closed down by law enforcement in Amherst County, Virginia, apparently because Sloan listed the home addresses of parties involved in his long-running but moot child custody dispute involving his daughter. The USENET posting mentions County investigator Christopher Smith. During that same time, Smith was conducting a broad campaign against Internet crime in the State.^[15]

2010 New York gubernatorial candidacy[link]

Sloan renewed his bid for governor in the New York gubernatorial election, 2010, facing off against attorney Warren Redlich and former madam Kristin M. Davis. Sloan, by his own admission, is not popular within the Libertarian Party of New York and did not expect to win the nomination.^[16] He has testified that a faction in the party who opposed non-Libertarian Redlich's nomination needed another candidate. Sloan eventually lost the nomination to Redlich in a two-way battle, by a vote of 27 for Redlich and 17 for Sloan, after Davis refused to show up at the convention. Despite his failure to secure the nomination, Sloan was the first to submit petitions to the board of elections with the Libertarian Party line, which effectively gives him the nomination; the down-ballot selections on Sloan's petitions are identical to those confirmed by the party committee. However, because his petitions failed to contain anywhere near the requisite 15,000 signatures, the nomination will go to Redlich; it has been speculated that Sloan is using the ploy to file a lawsuit against Redlich in his long-running dispute with the state Libertarian Party.^[17] Prior to the November elections, Roger Stone Davis's campaign manager, claims that Sloan fed him information that Stone passed on to a group entitled "People for a Safer New York," who created a flyer labeling Redlich a "sexual predator."^[18] The book Endgame: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer, ISBN 978-0-307-46390-6 by Frank Brady page 173 states, "Aided by an Eidetic Memory [Sloan] was the last non-lawyer to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court – a case he won. Bobby trusted him."

2012 presidential candidacy[link]

In January 2012, Sloan announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party's 2012 presidential nomination.^[19][20] He lost the nomination to Gary Johnson.

Private life[link]

Sloan has been married three times. Sloan's second wife, Honzagool, was a native of Chitral and together they had a daughter named Shamema.^[21] Sloan and Honzagool soon separated and Sloan left New York for Virginia with Shamema, leaving Shamema in the care of a Virginia couple, while Honzagool returned to Chitral. Sloan was subsequently locked into a now-moot child custody struggle, which lasted several years, with that Virginia couple over that same daughter. On September 5, 1991, Sloan attempted to leave the USA with Shamema and he was arrested. Sloan was convicted of attempted abduction of Shamema, a felony, for which he spent 18 months in state prison.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Sloan converted to Islam and changed his name to Haji Mohammed Ismail Sloan.^[26]

Sloan tied for the lead in the World Championship of Chinese Chess.^[27] He also won the Silver Medal in Senior Division (of two entries) at the World Memory Championship in Guangzhou, China.^[28]

Books[link]

• Sex Marchers (with Jefferson Poland, eds., Elysium, Inc. 1968) ISBN 0-923891-13-7
• Khowar English Dictionary (as Mohammad Ismail Sloan, 1981) (published in Pakistan) ISBN 0-923891-15-3
• Chinese Chess for Beginners (1989) ISBN 0-923891-11-0
• How to Take over an American Public Company (1992) ISBN 1-881373-01-0
• The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson (1992) ISBN 1-881373-02-9
• The Farm Book by Thomas Jefferson with light notes and annotations by Sam Sloan ISBN 0-923891-80-3
• Mafia Moll: The Judith Exner Story, The Life of the Mistress of John F. Kennedy (2008) ISBN 0-923891-90-0
• Sam Sloan Teaches A+ 50 Helpful Questions ISBN 0-923891-06-4

Court cases[link]

Sam Sloan has filed petitions in San Francisco Superior Court and in Marin County Probate Court located in the Marin County Civic Center. The petitions relate to the estate of Mike Goodall and charge Guide Dogs for the Blind with running a “scam operation” benefiting few if any blind people but rather providing “service dogs” to perfectly healthy people with full vision who want to take their pets into restaurants, buses and BART and with using tactics to coerce wealthy elderly people to leave their houses to Guide Dogs for the Blind rather than to their children. They are alleging that through these schemes Guide Dogs for the Blind has become one of the richest charities in the USA and the biggest property owner in Marin County, owning more than one hundred houses and a campus with more than 40 buildings and 39 vans, all tax free under 501(c)(3). According to the petitions, Guide Dogs for the Blind has accumulated more than $300 million in net assets and the directors pay themselves more than $1 million annually in salaries. ^{[29] [30]}

Among his cases that petitioned or reached the federal level are:

• Sloan v. Nixon, 60 FRD 228 (1973)
• Sloan v. Virginia, No. 95-8909
• SEC v. Sloan, 436 US 103^[31]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Sam Sloan player profile at ChessGames.com
• Sam Sloan rating card at FIDE
• Sam Sloan's Home Page
• Photos of Sam Sloan