He was commissioned first lieutenant on November 27, 1917, and assigned to Camp Sherman in Chillicothe in the 158th Brigade.

He was Chairman of the Butler County Democratic Executive Committee several times in the 1920s and 1930s.

He was appointed state counsel for the Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1933, and served until resigning February 1935 to return to private practice in Hamilton.

[1] Roy Hughes Williams of the Supreme Court of Ohio died December 18, 1946.

Sohngen ran for a six-year term in November, 1948, but was defeated by Kingsley A.