Thomas Dewey Murdered?

OK. Gangster Arthur Flegenheimer (AKA Dutch Schultz), was murdered by Mafia assassins, partly because they turned down his plans to murder Thomas Dewey. But, what if he went ahead with them before the Mafia got him- or if they approved- or even if he made sure that, if he died, someone would kill Dewey?
What would be the impact of that? (For starters, no "Dewey Defeats Truman"...)
 
Ok, let's assume that despite Lucky Luciano's objections the plan to assassinate Dewey goes ahead and he's shot while making his usual call to his office from a payphone near his home. He dies from his wounds and it ends up triggering the very mafia crackdown that Luciano feared would occur. Dewey is replaced by his chief of staff Frank Hogan who goes on to annihilate organized crime in New York State. Hogan later goes on to succeed Lehman as governor of New York (as a Democrat) before becoming a United States Senator.

Though little changes in New York as a result of Dewey's death (Democrats retain a stranglehold on the state until Rockefeller). The Republican Party finds itself without one of it's star candidates in the 1940's. The 1940 primary is a much different affair without Dewey. Perhaps the internationalists rally behind Hanford MacNider and make him the nominee instead of Wilkie in light of developments in France? It doesn't matter all that much because FDR's a shoe in for a third term. 1944 probably sees MacNider run again or perhaps Harold Stassen opts not to enlist in the Navy and instead focuses on politics?

Without Dewey, Stassen wins 1948 as an internationalist and goes on to defeat Truman by a narrow margin leading to a drastically different Republican Party...
 
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