Fred Vinson

Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) was an American politician who served the United States in all three branches of government and was the most prominent member of the Vinson political family. In the legislative branch, he was an elected member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisa, Kentucky, for 12 years. In the executive branch, he was the Secretary of Treasury under President Harry Truman. In the judicial branch, President Truman appointed Vinson the 13th Chief Justice of the United States in 1946. To date, he is the last candidate nominated by a president from the Democratic Party to be confirmed as Chief Justice (Lyndon Johnson nominated Abe Fortas as Chief Justice in 1968, but Fortas later withdrew his name from consideration).

Fred Vinson in The Hot War
Chief Justice Vinson, and six Associates Justices of the US Supreme Court, were attending a lawyers' conclave in St. Louis, Missouri, on the day when Washington, DC was hit by two Soviet atomic bombs. Vinson approved President Harry Truman's use of emergency powers to carry out policies he found necessary, without the approval of the Legislative Branch, a large number of whose members had not survived the attacks.