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Sorg, Paul J

manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 23, 1840, in Wheeling, W. Va. He began the manufacture of tobacco on a small scale in Cincinnati, and his manufactory, now located at Middletown, Ohio, is one of the largest in the world and employs more than a thousand men.

He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat at a special election held in 1894 to fill a vacancy. At the November (1894) election he enjoyed the distinction of being one of the two democratic representatives elected from Ohio, being elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat. was

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