Nicholas M. Pette (November 29, 1891 in

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– December 26, 1988 in

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) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He was the son of Michael Pette (died 1952). He attended schools in

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and

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. He married Gertrude Lott (died 1943), and they had one daughter: Janet Lott (Pette) Kujan. Pette was a member of the

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(Queens Co., 4th D.) in

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. He was a U.S. Commissioner (i.e. a federal magistrate appointed by the

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to help with the enforcement of the

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) until 1931; and a judge of the Queens Municipal Court from 1932 to 1950. He was a justice of the

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(10th D.) from 1950 to 1961, and sat in the Appellate Division (2nd Dpt.) from 1959 until the end of 1961, when he reached the constitutional age limit. He was an Official Referee (i.e. a senior judge on an additional seat) of the Supreme Court from 1962 to 1966. In 1957, he married Ruth (Hagen) Carney (1910–2002). He died on December 26, 1988, in St. Vincent's Hospital in

, of a

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Sources

''New York Red Book''
(1920; pg. 198) [The Red Book states as birth date "November 29, 1890", but Justice Pette would thus have reached the constitutional age limit at the end of 1960. As he sat on the Appellate Division during 1961, he should have been born in 1891.]
''FEDERAL JUDGES NAME VISEL A COMMISSIONER; Former Aide to Queens Prosecutor Succeeds Pette, Who Was Elected a Municipal Court Justice''
in NYT on December 20, 1931 (subscription required)

in NYT on December 28, 1988

at New York Courts
''Paid Obituaries; PETTE, Ruth Carney''
in the ''SunSentinel'', of

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, on January 15, 2002 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pette, Nicholas M 1891 births 1988 deaths New York Supreme Court Justices Politicians from Queens, New York Republican Party members of the New York State Assembly 20th-century American judges 20th-century American politicians