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La Guardia, Fiorello
A gunman in the House Gallery in 1932
December 13, 1932
On this date, 25-year-old Marlin Kemmerer, a department store clerk from Allentown, Pennsylvania, brandished a gun in the visitors’ gallery on the west side of the House Chamber, demanding 20 minutes to speak on the nation’s economic depression.
The impeachment of Judge Harold Louderback
April 17, 1933
On this date, managers in the House of Representatives filed an amendment to one of five articles of impeachment adopted against Judge Harold Louderback of the U.S. District Court for Northern California.