(1882–1947)
a popular mayor (2) of New York (1933–45). He was known as the ‘Little Flower’, which is what Fiorello means in Italian. He began his career as a Republican (1) politician and was elected to the US Congress (1917–19 and 1923–33). As mayor, he introduced measures to deal with problems of health, housing, transport and crime. During a newspaper strike in 1937 he pleased children by reading comic strips on the radio. La Guardia Airport is named after him.