Paul V McNutt
Banned
The plan was Hoover as AG, Tolson as assistant AG, Lou Nichols in charge of the FBI. Hoover would take the first vacancy on the Supreme Court, with the eventual goal of Chief Justice. Had Dewey won, Hoover would have been CJ by the summer of '46.
That's right. Chief Justice John Edgar Hoover, 1946-1972.
That implies Dewey wins in 1944. In the much more likely scenario of him winning in 1948. Hoover would get the vacancy that opened up in 1949. So it would be Assocaite Justice 1949 - 1952.