Vinson, << VIHN suhn, >> Frederick Moore (1890-1953), was chief justice of the United States from 1946 to 1953. He served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky from 1923 to 1929, and again from 1931 to 1938. He then served until 1943 as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He became director of the Office of Economic Stabilization in 1943. He then served as federal loan administrator before becoming director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. President Harry S. Truman named him secretary of the treasury in 1945. Vinson served as treasury secretary for about a year and had an important part in arranging financial settlements at the close of World War II. He was born on Jan. 22, 1890, in Louisa, Kentucky. He died on Sept. 8, 1953.
