Frances Sloat, nicknamed "Ann", was born in Stratford, Ontario, and was educated in that city and Hamilton.
[1] Sloat was a school trustee in Ancaster, and chaired the Wentworth County Board of Education from 1971 to 1972.
[2] Sloat campaigned for the Ontario legislature in the 1981 provincial election, and lost to Liberal incumbent Eric Cunningham by 4,121 votes in Wentworth North.
[2] She took the oath of office as a Member of Provincial Parliament in January 1985, and immediately endorsed Frank Miller to become the party's new leader at a February leadership convention.
She served as a Hamilton-Wentworth regional councillor, and was deputy mayor of Ancaster before the city's amalgamation with Hamilton in 2000.