Before that, he served as Governor Doug Ducey's chief of operations, and later as the director of legislative and regulatory affairs for Traversant Group.
Vogt briefly served as interim director of Arizona State Parks and Trails in 2018.
[2] On June 11, 2013, Governor Janice K. Brewer appointed Vogt to be the director of the Arizona Department of Veterans' Services.
Vogt was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, when his family moved there in 1974.
From 1995 until he entered the United States Air Force in 2000, Vogt spent time chiefly in the private sector as an investment banker in the New York metropolitan area, advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago, (beginning during the 1996 U.S. presidential election) executive assistant to then-former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and at night a member of The Second City comedy troupe (1997–2000).
During the summer of 2008, he worked on Homeland Security issues at the White House for the Office of Vice President Cheney.
Ultimately, Vogt chose to speak at the graduation ceremony, while nearly 20 students walked out on his speech, returning at the conclusion of his remarks.
In 2011, Vogt sponsored major legislation granting all honorably discharged veterans automatic in-state tuition at all three of Arizona's state universities, as well as all community colleges.