Researching Robert Vogel

Vogel graduated from Bismarck High School in 1935. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Dakota in 1939 and his law degree from William Mitchell College of Law (then the Minneapolis-Minnesota College of Law) in 1942. He was admitted to both the Minnesota and North Dakota Bars. He married Elsa Mork in 1942.He was in private practice in Garrison, North Dakota from 1943 to 1948, at which time he was elected McLean County States Attorney. In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed him U.S. Attorney for the District of North Dakota, a position he held until 1961. Afterward, Vogel became a partner in the eponymous firm of Vogel, Bair, and Brown, located in Mandan, North Dakota. He made an unsuccessful run for Congress the next year as a member of the Democratic/Nonpartisan League.

In 1973, Governor Arthur A. Link appointed Vogel to the North Dakota Supreme Court, and he won a ten-year term in the following year's general election. Despite his win, Vogel resigned from the supreme court four years later to become a professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law. e simultaneously opened the Vogel Law Firm in Grand Forks.

Vogel retired in 1997, and died eight years later on January 28, 2005, in Rochester, Minnesota.

With his wife of 62 years, Elsa Vogel, he had four children, Mary Vogel Carrick; Sarah Vogel, also an attorney who practices at the Sarah Vogel Law Office, P.C. in Bismarck and formerly North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture; Frank E. Vogel, Professor of Islamic Law, Harvard Law School; and Robert "Bobby" Vogel of Grand Forks, a lecturer and civil rights advocate for the disabled community.

Robert was born and raised on a farm in rural Saint Marys, Ohio where he became heavily involved in shooting, hunting and the outdoors from a very young age. After graduating high school in 2000 he went immediately into a 2-year Police Academy program. It was also at this time that he began competing in practical shooting competitions. At present, Robert is a 2-time world champion and 17-time national champion across 3 disciplines of practical and combat shooting. Besides this, he has been a Police Officer for over 10 years. Eight and a half of those years were spent as a full-time street cop while also being a member of the county's joint-department SWAT team. During that tenure he served as a firearm instructor for both the department and the SWAT team.

Vogel won the USPSA National Championship in the Production Division two years in a row (2008 and 2009). In 2011, he won the Limited-10 Division. He has also won two world championships in Production and Stock-Pistol Division. He is currently ranked as a Grand Master in four USPSA Divisions, and as a Distinguished Master in four IDPA Divisions.

In 2012, Vogel appeared as an expert in the fourth season of History Channel's Top Shot.