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. ==References==