Daily Quiz for September 16, 2007

After serving as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1941 and ?42, James Francis Byrnes went on to become director of the Office of Economic Stabilization and secretary of state. Byrnes, a close associate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, left the bench to lead the Office of Economic Stabilization in 1942-?43 and then the Office of War Mobilization from 1943-?45. Byrnes was a key leader in the U.S. mobilization for war and a close confidante to FDR on foreign policy. He served as secretary of state for President Harry Truman from 1945-?47.