Supreme Court · Chief Justice
Frederick Vinson
Democratic appointee: Appointed by Harry S. Truman (D)
Served 1946–1953 · 7 terms
Confirmed by voice vote
Biography
Frederick Moore Vinson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government.
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Ideology over time
Vinson and the 10 justices who overlapped with Vinson, 1946–1952
- Frederick Vinson
- 95% credible interval
- Peer, appointed by a Democrat
- Peer, appointed by a Republican
- Court median
How to read this
Martin–Quinn scores place each justice on a single liberal–conservative dimension, estimated from their votes across terms, with scores allowed to shift from one term to the next. Higher is more conservative. The shaded band is the credible interval: wider when the record is thin, especially in a justice’s first terms, and narrower as votes accumulate.
Where Vinson sits among all justices
Career average, every justice in the data set
Vinson’s range across terms
Served alongside Vinson
10 justicesClosest career average first. Filled dot: the peer. Ring: Vinson.
How Vinson voted
Every argued case Vinson took part in, newest first, with how Vinson voted in each: with the majority, in dissent, or in an equally divided Court. A Liberal or Conservative tag is the Supreme Court Database’s coding of who prevailed in the case, not a rating of the justices.
Data notes
The Decisions page’s argued cases with this justice’s vote from the Supreme Court Database. “Majority” includes a concurrence; a vote that dissented in part is coded by the side the justice took overall. Cases the justice sat out and equally divided cases are left out of the percentages. “Wrote” means authored an opinion. Source: Supreme Court Database (Spaeth et al.).