About William J. Hickey
Lived 1873 – 1953 (aged 79–80). William J. Hickey was an American politician and judge.
William J. Hickey (December 1873 – December 22, 1953) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life Born on a farm in Orleans County, New York, Hickey attended Buffalo's Medina Academy and read law under the supervision of the Norton law firm to gain admission to the bar in New York in 1906.
He was a justice of the New York Supreme Court (8th D.) from 1936 to 1943.
Hickey never married, and had no immediate survivors, having outlived his only brother, Indiana politician Andrew J. Hickey, by over a decade. Hickey died in a hospital in Buffalo, weeks after his 80th birthday.
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New York politician and judge
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William J. Hickey was born in 1873.
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William J. Hickey died in 1953.
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William J. Hickey was a politician and judge.
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