Richard Elihu Sloan (22 June 1857-13 December 1933) was the Republican Governor of the Arizona Territory from 1 May 1909 to 14 February 1912, succeeding Joseph Henry Kibbey and preceding George W.P. Hunt.
Biography[]
Richard Elihu Sloan was born in Morning Sun, Preble County, Ohio in 1857, and he moved to Denver, Colorado to deal with his asthma and hay fever. He became a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, worked at several mines near Breckenridge and Leadville in Colorado, and settled in Phoenix, Arizona Territory in 1884, again with the purpose of improving his help. He practiced law in Phoenix until 1886, when he moved to Florence. He served as Pinal County attorney from 1887 to 1889, served in the territorial legislature, served as an Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court in Tucson from 1889 to 1894 and from 1897 to 1909, practiced law in Prescott, raised the issue of Arizona statehood at the 1908 Republican National Convention, and served as the Territorial Governor of Arizona from 1909 until statehood in 1912. He then served as a district court judge from 1912 to 1913 and spent the rest of his life in private practice in Phoenix, where he died in 1933.