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LaGuardia grew up in New York City and was educated at the New York University. The family moved to Trieste after his father was discharged from his bandmaster position in the US Army in 1898. La Guardia served in the U.S. consulate at Fiume (1904–1906). Fiorello returned to the U.S. to continue his education, and during this time he worked as a translator at Ellis Island (1907–1910).

He became the deputy attorney general of New York in 1914. In 1916 he was elected to the New York State House of Representatives, where he developed a reputation as a fiery and devoted reformer. In Congress, LaGuardia represented then-Italian East HarlemSpanish Harlem (also known as El Barrio) is the name given to a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, United States. Since the 1950's, it has been populated by a large number of people of Puerto Rican descent, sometimes called Nu. Extending his record as a reformer, LaGuardia sponsored labor legislation and railed against immigration quotas.

LaGuardia was elected mayor of New York CitySkyline, with Statue of Liberty New York, New York" redirects here. For alternate meanings, see New York, New York (disambiguation). New York — officially named City of New York and often called New York City to distinguish it from the state of New York, on an anti-corruption "fusion" ticket during the Great DepressionThe Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in the United States following Black Thursday, the Wall Street panic of October 1929. On October 24, 1929, share prices on Wall Street collapsed catastrophically, setting off a chain of bankruptc. LaGuardia was the City's first Italian mayor, but LaGuardia was far from being a typical Italian New Yorker. He was RepublicanIn political science, a republican (lowercase r is a person who advocates the establishment of a republic as a form of government, in contrast to a monarchist and focused more on republican ideals than democratic. See also republicanism In politics, a Rep, Episcopalian, had grown up in Arizona, and had a Jewish mother.

LaGuardia is famous for, among other things, reading the comics on the radioFor other uses see: radio (disambiguation Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. Radio waves Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, and are during a newspaper strike, and pushing to have a commercial airport ( Floyd Bennett FieldFloyd Bennett Field New York City's first municipal airport, is located in Brooklyn on Barren Island, near Gerritsen Beach. It is currently part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. The airport was dedicated June 26, 1930 and opened May 23, 1931., and later LaGuardia AirportFiorello La Guardia Airport is located in Flushing, a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens, New York near the Flushing Bay. It serves the greater New York area. Its IATA airport code is LGA. LaGuardia is New York's main domestic airport) within city limits. Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and LaGuardia Community College are also named for him.