John E. Kingston (December 11, 1925 – May 5, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
[1] Kingston was a member of the New York State Assembly from 1960 to 1974, after winning a special election in 1959.
The indictment was ultimately dismissed on January 24, 1974, on grounds of "overbreadth" of Section 457 citing Dombrowski v. Pfister, Broadrick v. Oklahoma, Plummer v. City of Columbus, and Lovell v. City of Griffin.
[5] He was a Judge of the Nassau County District Court through 1994, after first being elected in 1989, representing North Hempstead.
He died on May 5, 1996;[7] and was buried at the Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington.