Born in Louisa, Kentucky, he pursued a legal career and served in the United States Army during World War I. After the war, he served as the Commonwealth\'s Attorney for the Thirty-Second Judicial District of Kentucky before winning election to the United States House of Representatives in 1924. He lost re-election in 1928 but regained his seat in 1930 and served in Congress until 1937. During his time in Congress, he became an adviser and confidante of Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman. In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Vinson to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Vinson resigned from the appellate court in 1943, when he became the Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization. After Truman acceded to the presidency following Roosevelt\'s death in 1945, Truman appointed Vinson to the position of Secretary of the Treasury. Vinson negotiated the payment of the Anglo-American loan and presided over the establishment of numerous post-war organizations, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund.\n', '

After the death of Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone in 1946, Truman appointed Vinson to the Supreme Court. As of 2019[update] Vinson is the last Chief Justice nominee nominated by a president from the Democratic Party to be confirmed. Vinson dissented in the case of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, which ruled against the Truman administration\'s control of the nation\'s steel mills during a strike. He ordered a rehearing of the Briggs v. Elliott case, which was eventually combined into the case known as Brown v. Board of Education. Vinson unexpectedly died of a heart attack in 1953.\n', '

Frederick Moore Vinson, known universally as "Fred", was born in the newly built, eight-room, red brick house in front of the Lawrence County jail in Louisa, Kentucky, where his father served as the Lawrence County Jailer.[citation needed] As a child he would help his father in the jail and even made friends with prisoners who would remember his kindness when he later ran for public office.[citation needed] Vinson worked odd jobs while in school.[citation needed] He graduated from Kentucky Normal School in 1908 and enrolled at Centre College, where he graduated at the top of his class with a Bachelor of Arts degree.[citation needed] While at Centre, he was a member of the Kentucky Alpha Delta chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.[citation needed] He received a Bachelor of Laws from the now defunct College of Law at the former Central University (now combined with another institution to form Eastern Kentucky University). He entered private practice in Louisa. He first ran for and was elected to office as the City Attorney of Louisa.\n', '

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