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Lori Mizgorski

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ99264087 ↗
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Lori A. Mizgorski (née Voegtly; c. 1967–) is an American politician who previously represented the 30th Legislative District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. She now serves as District Manager for the district office of the 44th District of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives She is a Republican.

Early life and education

Mizgorski is a native of Shaler Township. She graduated from Shaler Area High School in 1985, and studied English at Hood College.

Political career

Lori Mizgorski ran for a seat on the Shaler Township board of commissioners in 2005, missing it in a 562–584 vote. She was elected in 2009, and from January 2011, concurrently served as Shaler Township representative to the Allegheny River Towns Enterprise Zone. Mizgorski began working for Hal English in 2013, when English was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from District 30. In November of that year, Mizgorski secured a second term as township commissioner. In July 2018, she was nominated by the Republican Party to replace English on the ballot, after English chose not to run for reelection.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lori Mizgorski” is american politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lori, Mizgorski and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1985, 2005, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-01-01. For this dossier, Lori, Mizgorski and American is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q99264087. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1985, 2005 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lori Mizgorski” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.