RAYMOND H. VOGEL 1949

HISTORY OF THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE

RAYMOND H. VOGEL
1949 - 1954

Raymond H. Vogel, twenty-first prosecuting attorney, was born in Pocahontas on October 6, 1915. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State College with a B.S. in 1937 and from the University of Iowa with a J.D. in 1940. He was an FBI Special Agent from 1940 to 1946, stationed in Washington, D.C., Newark, N. J., North Carolina and Florida. In Florida he was part of a team of agents looking for German saboteurs. He served three terms as prosecuting attorney and one term as State Representative from 1957 to 1958. He was Cape Girardeau City Attorney from 1959 to 1964. He was a Missouri Special Assistant Attorney General from 1969 to 1973. He currently practices law in Cape Girardeau.