Sam Sloan

Samuel Howard Sloan (born September 7, 1944) is an American chess player and publisher who lives with his family in The Bronx, New York. He is a Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States. In 2006, Sloan served on the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation. He competed in the 2013 and in the 2015 World Championship of Chinese Chess in Huizhou, China and in Munich, Germany.

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. 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 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. He was a candidate for Mayor of New York City in 2013 and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Governor and for New York's 15th congressional district in 2014.