 He served as senior advisor to President Herbert Hoover from 1930–33.In 1919 La Guardia was chosen to run as the Republican candidate for the office of President of the New York City Board of Aldermen.His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected board president in 1917, became governor.