Fiorello Henry La Guardia (1882–1947) was the 99th mayor of New York City (1934–45). He reorganized the police force and restored trust in a municipal government that had been perceived as patronage laden and corrupt during the mayoralty of James J. Walker (1926–32). La Guardia was born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia in New York's Greenwich Village. His father was Achille La Guardia, a lapsed Roman Catholic who was a bandmaster in the United States Army, and his mother, Irene Coen Luzzato, was Jewish. La Guardia was raised an Episcopalian. His middle name "Enrico" was changed to "Henry" (the English form of Enrico) when he was a child. He grew up in Prescott, Arizona, attending public school and high school there, where his father was posted. When his father became ill during the Spanish–American War, he was discharged from the army, and the family moved to Europe. They lived in Trieste, Austria, his mother's hometown. La Guardia joined the U.S. State Department's Consulate Service at the…