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 close ally of state senator John Knight, who would go on to become a federal judge.
[1] He resigned the post in September 1935 to get nominated for the Supreme Court.
[1] Hickey died in a hospital in Buffalo, weeks after his 80th birthday.
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