Fred Vinson biography

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Fred Vinson was born on January 22, 1890, in Louisa, Kentucky. In 1923, he filled a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1938 to 1943, he served in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. President Harry S. Truman appointed him secretary of the Treasury in 1945. On year later Vinson became chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He died on September 8, 1953.