(Photo courtesy of the Southeast Missourian)
Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle, left, shows photographs of former county
prosecutors in 1989 to then Circuit Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., himself a former prosecutor.
| Click on the photograph of each former Prosecuting Attorney for a larger photo and a brief biography, researched and compiled by Morley Swingle. | ||
 W. WILSON CRAMER 1873 - 1874 |
 ROBERT H. WHITELAW 1875 - 1878 |
 ROBERT BURETT OLIVER 1879 - 1882 |
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 MAURICE CRAMER 1883 - 1886 |
 JOHN A. SNIDER 1887 - 1890, 1893 - 1896 |
 FRANK E. BURROUGH 1891 - 1892 |
 THOMAS D. HINES 1897 - 1904 |
 CHARLES H. DAUES 1905 - 1906 |
 HARRY E. ALEXANDER 1907 - 1910 |
 JAMES H. DORIS 1911 - 1912 |
 J. HENRY CARUTHERS 1913 - 1920 |
 FRANK M. HINES 1921 - 1926 |
 S. P. DALTON 1927 - 1928, 1931 - 1934 |
 J. GRANT FRYE 1929 - 1930 |
 ELMER A. STROM 1935 - 1936, 1939 - 1942 |
 EDWARD L. DRUM 1937 |
 ROBERT BURETT OLIVER, III 1938 |
 JAMES A. FINCH, JR. 1943 |
 JAMES A. FINCH 1944 |
 ROBERT M. BUERKLE 1945 - 1948 |
 RAYMOND H. VOGEL 1949 - 1954 |
 STEPHEN N. LIMBAUGH 1955 - 1958 |
 RICHARD E. SNIDER 1959 - 1960 |
 STEPHEN E. STROM 1961 - 1962 |
 BILL D. BURLISON 1963 - 1968 |
 A. J. SEIER 1969 - 1976 |
 BRADSHAW SMITH 1977 - 1978 |
 STEPHEN N. LIMBAUGH, JR. 1979 - 1982 |
 LARRY H. FERRELL 1983 - 1986 |
 H. MORLEY SWINGLE 1987 - PRESENT |