Nicholas M. Pette
Nicholas M. Pette was an American lawyer and politician from New York.Life
He was the son of Michael Pette. He attended schools in Jamaica, Queens and Strasbourg, France. He married Gertrude Lott, and they had one daughter: Janet Lott Kujan.
Pette was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1920 and 1921.
He was a U.S. Commissioner until 1931; and a judge of the Queens Municipal Court from 1932 to 1950.
He was a Justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1950 to 1961, and sat in the Appellate Division from 1959 until the end of 1961, when he reached the constitutional age limit. He was an Official Referee of the Supreme Court from 1962 to 1966.
In 1957, he married Ruth Carney.
He died on December 26, 1988, in St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, of a bleeding ulcer.
