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Dorsey, George W. E

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 25, 1842, in Loudon county, Va. He recruited a company and entered the union army in 1861 as first lieutenant, sixth West Virginia infantry; and was promoted to the rank of captain and of major, and was mustered out with the army of the Shenandoah in 1865. He moved to Nebraska in 1866; and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He was a member of the board of trustees of the insane hospital; a member and vice-president of the state board of agriculture of Nebraska; and was also chairman of the republican state central committee of Nebraska. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Nebraska to the forty-ninth congress, and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican.