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TED P. SLOANE
Mr. Speaker: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character, and public service of the late Honorable Ted P. Sloane, begs leave to submit the following memorial:
The son of L. T. and Mary Rebecca (Shea) Sloane, he was born March 22, 1903. On March 21, 1937 he married Eleanor Louise Davis, to which union was born one son and one daughter.
An all-state football player for Valley High School, he was named an All-American in 1925. He was a member of the Drake University coaching staff from 1928 to 1931. He was often hailed as one of Drake University’s most famous football players and was recognized in 1980 as one of Drake’s all-time great athletes. A prominent Des Moines divorce attorney, he served 39 years as a domestic court lawyer; served as secretary to the late Des Moines Mayor Parker L. Crouch in 1930 and 1931; was a member of the Iowa and Polk County bar associations; was the first treasurer of the Polk County Young Republicans Club; was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church; was a member of the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine; was a Scottish Rite Thirty-second degree Mason; served as vice president and general counsel at Pictures Productions, Inc.; and at the time of his retirement, was a partner in the law firm of Powers, Sloane, Jordan, Marks, Flagg and Hockett.
A Republican, Mr. Sloane represented Polk County in the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth General Assemblies.
Ted P. Sloane died December 21, 1984. His survivors include his wife, Eleanor, of Boca Raton, Florida; his son, Ted, of San Jose, California; his daughter, Mary McCarty, of Birmingham, Alabama; two brothers, Earl, of Boca Raton, Florida and Luke, of Sulphur Springs, Texas; and two granddaughters.
Now Therefore, Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-first General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of the Honorable Ted P. Sloane, the State has lost an honored citizen and a faithful and useful public servant, and the House by this Resolution would express its appreciation of his service.
Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be directed to forward an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.
DOROTHY CARPENTER
JACK WOODS
JOHN CONNORS
Committee