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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KentuckyFrederick Moore VINSON
(1890-1953)
VINSON, Frederick Moore, a
Representative from Kentucky; born in Louisa, Lawrence County, Ky.,
January 22, 1890; attended the public schools; graduated from the
law department of Centre College, Danville, Ky., 1911; was admitted
to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Louisa; city
attorney of Louisa in 1914 and 1915; lawyer, private practice;
United States Army, First World War, 1917-1919; Commonwealth
attorney for the thirty-second judicial district of Kentucky
1921-1924; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress by
special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
United States Representative William J. Fields, and reelected to
the two succeeding Congresses (January 24, 1924-March 3, 1929);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Seventy-first Congress
in 1928; resumed the practice of law in Kentucky; elected as
Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the three succeeding
Congresses (March 4, 1931-May 12, 1938); appointed by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt an associate justice of the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1938 and
subsequently designated by Chief Justice Stone on March 2, 1942, as
chief judge of the United States Emergency Court of Appeals; served
in each capacity until his resignation May 27, 1943, to become
Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, in which capacity
he served until March 5, 1945; Federal Loan Administrator from
March 6 to April 3, 1945; director of War Mobilization and
Reconversion from April 4 to July 22, 1945; appointed Secretary of
the Treasury by President Harry S. Truman and served from July 23,
1945, to June 23, 1946; appointed and took the oath of office as
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court on June 24, 1946,
and served until his death in Washington, D.C., September 8, 1953;
interment in Pinehill Cemetery, Louisa, Ky.
Bibliography
Bolner, James. “Fred M. Vinson: 1890-1938, The Years of
Relative Obscurity.” Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society 63 (January 1965): 3-16; Hatcher, John H. “Fred
Vinson: Congressman from Kentucky, A Political Biography:
1890-1938.” Ph.D. diss., University of Cincinnati, 1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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