American politician; 99th Mayor of New York City (1934–45)
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He ran New York through the Depression and the war, built what still stands, and broke the machine that had run the city like a syndicate for generations. A Republican who kept winning with left-wing votes, a five-foot scrapper with a radio show, and according to 69 scholars in 1993, the best big-city mayor America ever had.
Born December 11, 1882, to Italian immigrants in New York, La Guardia moved through Congress twice—1917 to 1919, then 1923 to 1933—before running for mayor in the depths of the Great Depression. He won in 1933 on a Roosevelt-and-New-Deal platform and held the job for twelve years. In office he unified the transit system, expanded housing and parks and airports, reorganized the police, and funneled federal money into the city while starving Tammany Hall of the patronage it had lived on. His Sunday radio program ran from 1941 to 1945, making him a voice beyond the five boroughs. He left office i…
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The gentleman [Mr. Taber] from New York says [agricultural research] is all foolish. Yes; it was foolish when Burbank was experimenting with wild cactus.
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