James Sloan
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For the United States Congressman from New Jersey, see James Sloan (congressman).
James Sloan was the founder of the Orange Institution, also known as the Orange Order.
The three main founders were James Wilson, Daniel Winter and James Sloan.[1]
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- ^ "James Wilson and James Sloan, who along with 'Diamond' Dan Winter, issued the first Orange lodge warrants from Sloan's Loughgall inn, were masons." The Men of no Popery, The Origins Of The Orange Order, by Jim Smyth, from History Ireland Vol 3 No 3 Autumn 1995
