The following article, written by Jonathan Lewin, appears on NYDailyNews.com.

The Little Flower always knew he’d make a great New York mayor. By 1933 he’d been waiting years for the job.

As an anti-Tammany liberal Republican, Fiorello La Guardia attracted national attention in Congress, but he could never build a constituency in his own heavily Democratic town. Now, with Jimmy Walker deposed, civic leaders at last were looking for a fusion candidate with La Guardia’s previously unfashionable reform opinions.

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