Frederick Moore Vinson

1890–1953 · Louisa, KY

Judicial Service

CourtTitleAppointed ByCommissionedTermination
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia CircuitAssociate JusticeFranklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Dec 15, 1937Resignation, May 28, 1943
Supreme Court of the United StatesChief JusticeHarry S Truman (Democratic)Jun 21, 1946Death, Sep 8, 1953

Education

  • Centre College, B.A., 1909
  • College of Law of Central University, LL.B., 1911

Professional Career

Private practice, Louisa, Kentucky, 1911-1917, 1919-1924; City attorney, Louisa, Kentucky, 1913; U.S. Army private and officer trainee, 1917-1919; Commonwealth attorney, Thirty-Second Judicial District, Kentucky, 1921-1924; U.S. representative from Kentucky, 1923-1929, 1931-1938; Private practice, Ashland, Kentucky, 1929-1931; Director, Office of Economic Stabilization, 1943-1945; Administrator, Federal Loan Administration, 1945; Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 1945; Secretary of the Treasury, 1945-1946; Presiding officer, Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, 1946-1948, andJudicial Conference of the United States, 1948-1953

Other Federal Judicial Service

  • Judge, Emergency Court of Appeals, 1942-1943; chief judge, 1942-1943

Opinions on This Site

Showing 100 of 427 opinions from 1938 to 1954

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