Sloan won re-election to the state director's position in a caucus held during the 66th annual Oklahoma Farm Bureau meeting at Oklahoma City's Cox Convention Center.
Delegates from a 12-county area in northeast Oklahoma picked Sloan. will represent Farm Bureau members from Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers, Sequoyah and Wagoner counties as the district six state director.
Sloan, 72, lives in Vian and farms corn and soybeans along with some vegetable crops.
He and his wife, Mary, have two sons. His son, Jody, along with his wife, Paula, farm in the Vian area. His other son, Chuck, resides in Fort Smith, Ark.
Sloan has been farming since 1977, and has been a Farm Bureau member for more than 50 years. He has served as Sequoyah County Farm Bureau president for many years.
He was first elected to the board in 1990, and served continuously through 2001 when he termed out. After being out for a term, he was re-elected to the district six director's position in 2004.
Sloan is the former Oklahoma Soybean Association president and he served as a national director of the American Soybean Association. He is active in the Vian Methodist Church and served 18 years as president of the Vian Board of Education.
Charles and Mary Sloan's son and his family, Jody and Paula Sloan and their children, Seth, 19, Sydney, 16, and Sylas, 13, were named the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Farm Family of the Year at the convention, and will represent Oklahoma in the Farm Bureau's national competition for the Farm Family of the Year at the national convention to be held in New Orleans.
Also at the state convention Sally Maxwell, Your TIMES managing editor, was named the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Rural Journalist of the Year.
