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A Short Biography of Fiorello LaGuardia

Author Name:

Fiorello LaGuardia

Born As:

Fiorello Enrico La Guardia

Other Names:

The Little Flower. Fiorello is Italian for "little flower", diminutive of fiore, Italian for "flower".

Born:

11 Dec 1882

Died:

20 Sep 1947




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Director of civilian defense                          
                          
Mother Irene Coen Luzzato
Father Achille La Guardia

First wife Thea Almerigotti, married in 1919. She died of tuberculosis on November 29, 1921, at the age of 26

Second wife Marie Fisher in 1929; and adopted two children.                          
Worked for New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as an interpreter for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration at the Ellis Island immigrant station - 1907–1910

Mayor of New York City 1934 - 1945 - three terms.

Director general for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration - UNRRA in 1946.

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as an interpreter for the U.S. Bureau of Immigration at the Ellis Island immigrant station - 1907–1910                          
Outspoken and early critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, La Guardia warned, "Part of Hitler's program is the complete annihilation of the Jews in Germany." In 1937, speaking before the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress, La Guardia called for the creation of a special pavilion at the upcoming New York World's Fair "a chamber of horrors" for "that brown-shirted fanatic".

La Guardia's sister, Gemma La Guardia Gluck, was arrested by the Germans in a roundup of Jews in Hungary in 1944. She was held under privileged conditions at Ravensbrück concentration camp and released after the war.