Fred M. Vinson

**Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson** (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) was an American lawyer and politician who served in all three branches of the United States.

In the legislative branch, he was an elected member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisa, Kentucky, for twelve years. In the executive branch, he was the Secretary of Treasury under President Harry S. Truman. In the judicial branch, he was the 13th Chief Justice of the United States, appointed by President Truman.

As of 2014, he is the last Chief Justice to have been nominated by a president from the Democratic Party.

## Other websites

- Biography , at the U.S. Treasury Office of the Curator.
- Truman Presents Supreme Court Chief Justice Vinson With Historic Gavel, 1948 Shapell Manuscript Foundation
- _Chief Justice Vinson dies of Heart Attack_, New York Times, September 8, 1953.
- Find a Grave, Frederick M. Vinson.
- Obituary, NY Times, September 9, 1953, _Vinson Excelled In Federal Posts_.
- Oyez Project, Fred M. Vinson, United States Supreme Court.
- Supreme Court Historical Society, The Vinson Court.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Fred M. Vinson
- **image**: Fred m vinson.jpg
- **office**: Chief Justice of the United States#List of chief justices, 13th Chief Justice of the United States
- **termstart**: June 21, 1946
- **termend**: September 8, 1953
- **nominator**: Harry S. Truman
- **predecessor**: Harlan F. Stone
- **successor**: Earl Warren
- **office2**: 53rd United States Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of the Treasury
- **termstart2**: July 23, 1945
- **termend2**: June 23, 1946
- **president2**: Harry S. Truman
- **predecessor2**: Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
- **successor2**: John W. Snyder
- **order3**: 2nd Office of Economic Stabilization, Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization
- **termstart3**: 1943
- **termend3**: 1945
- **president3**: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- **predecessor3**: James F. Byrnes, James Byrnes
- **successor3**: William Hammatt Davis, William H. Davis
- **order4**: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **termstart4**: 1938
- **termend4**: 1943
- **nominator4**: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- **predecessor4**: Charles Henry Robb
- **successor4**: William Kingsbury Miller
- **order5**: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's Kentucky's 8th congressional district, 8th district
- **termstart5**: March 4, 1933
- **termend5**: May 27, 1938
- **preceded5**: Ralph Waldo Emerson Gilbert
- **succeeded5**: Joe B. Bates
- **order6**: Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's Kentucky's 9th congressional district, 9th district
- **termstart6**: March 4, 1931
- **termend6**: March 3, 1933
- **preceded6**: Elva R. Kendall
- **succeeded6**: John Y. Brown, Sr.
- **termstart7**: January 24, 1924
- **termend7**: March 3, 1929
- **preceded7**: William Jason Fields
- **succeeded7**: Elva R. Kendall
- **birth name**: Frederick Moore Vinson
- **birth place**: Louisa, Kentucky, Louisa, Lawrence County, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Kentucky, U.S.
- **death place**: Washington, D.C., U.S.
- **resting place**: Pinehill Cemetery
Louisa, Kentucky, Louisa, Kentucky, U.S.
- **party**: US Democratic Party, Democratic
- **spouse**: Julia Roberta Dixon
- **children**: Frederick Moore Vinson, Jr.
James Vinson
- **alma mater**: Centre College
- **branch**: United States Army
- **serviceyears**: 1917–1919
- **battles**: World War I