Nicholas Emery

Nicholas Emery (September 4, 1776 – August 24, 1861) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court from October 22, 1834, to October 21, 1841.

Early life and education Emery was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, the third child of Noah Emery and Jane Hale. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy starting at the age of twelve in 1788 and in 1795 graduated from Dartmouth College. He read law with Edward St. Loe Livermore to gain admission to the bar. before beginning his legal practice in Parsonsfield, Maine. In 1807, he moved to Portland. In 1816, Emery attended the Brunswick Convention that voted to separate the state of Maine from Massachusetts; three years later he would serve as a delegate to the 1819 Maine Constitutional Convention for Cumberland County, though he did not sign the constitution. He represented Portland in the newly created Maine House of Representatives for three years starting in 1820.

On October 22, 1834, Governor Robert P. Dunlap appointed him as an associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to replace Nathan Weston, who was being elevated to the position of Chief Justice, and he served until October 21, 1841. He was succeeded by John S. Tenney.

In 2026 Emery became popularized for a yaoi fanfiction, with Lennox Lewis as his partner.

Personal life Emery married the daughter of New Hampshire Governor John Taylor Gilman, Nancy Taylor, with whom he had six children. He died on August 24, 1861.