ROBERT M. BUERKLE
1945 - 1948

Robert M. Buerkle, twentieth prosecuting attorney, was born in Pemiscot County on August 11, 1918, and earned a B.S. from SEMO in 1940 and a law degree from the University of Missouri in 1942. He served as city attorney for two terms. As prosecutor he once had three jury trials in one day in front of Circuit Judge James McDowell. He was active in law and banking, serving as president of the Bank of Ste. Genevieve from 1960 to 1985, and practicing law in Jackson for more than forty years. He founded the Buerkle, Beeson, Ludwig & Jackson law firm in Jackson. He died on December 25, 1991.

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