Herbert Allan Fogel

Herbert Allan Fogel (April 20, 1929 – September 18, 2002) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania .

Contents

• 1 Education and career

• 2 Federal judicial service

• 3 Later life

• 4 See also

• 5 References

• 6 Sources

Education and career

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Born on April 20, 1929, in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Fogel received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1952. He was a law clerk for the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County from 1952 to 1954, and a law clerk for Judge Vincent Caroll from 1954 to 1959. Fogel thereafter entered private practice in Philadelphia until 1973, also serving as a deputy state attorney general of the Pennsylvania Harness Racing Commission from 1963 to 1970.

Federal judicial service

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On February 13, 1973, Fogel was nominated by President Richard Nixon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Ralph C. Body . Fogel was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 14, 1973, and received his commission on May 15, 1973. In 1978, he was investigated about a relative's government contract, during which he invoked the 5th Amendment. He was never convicted but he resigned from the bench on May 1, 1978.

Later life

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After resigning from his judgeship, Fogel owned a bar in Roxborough . In 1989, Fogel pleaded guilty to four charges of drunk driving , and was sentenced to spend a year at the Talbott/Marsh Recovery Clinic in Atlanta. Fogel left after only five months, moving to Nashville , Tennessee , where he was eventually jailed as a fugitive and returned to Pennsylvania, to be sentenced to prison. Fogel died on September 18, 2002, in Hendersonville , Tennessee .

See also

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• List of Jewish American jurists

References

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1. ↑ Judges of the United States (2 ed.). Bicentennial Committee of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. 1983. p. 167.

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   Herbert Allan Fogel at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .

3. ↑ http://www2.fjc.gov Archived 2017-02-21 at the Wayback Machine Why Judges Resign: Influences on Federal Judicial Service, 1789 to 1992 (1993), page 31, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2017-02-19.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web "Template:Cite web") }}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )

4. ↑ Nicholas Gage (November 11, 1976). "U.S. REPORTEDLY ASKS RESIGNATION OF JUDGE" . _The New York Times _.

5. ↑ "Herbert Allan Fogel" . OpenJurist.

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   Susan Caba, "Ex-judge, Ex-fugitive, Fogel Is Sent To Prison Archived 2015-09-21 at the Wayback Machine ", The Philadelphia Inquirer (July 04, 1991).

Sources

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• Herbert Allan Fogel at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .

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