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Eugene Nickerson (Eugene Hoffman Nickerson) was born on 2 August, 1918 in Orange, New Jersey, U.S., is a US federal judge (1918–2002). Discover Eugene Nickerson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?

Popular As Eugene Hoffman Nickerson
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Age 84 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 2 August, 1918
Birthday 2 August
Birthplace Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of death 2002
Died Place New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1888

His father, Hoffman Nickerson (1888–1965), was an Army officer, state legislator, and historian who wrote The turning point of the Revolution; or, Burgoyne in America concerning the Saratoga campaign.

Born in Orange, New Jersey, Nickerson grew up in New York City and Mill Neck on Long Island.

At St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, he was quarterback of the football team and captain of the hockey team.

1891

His mother, né Ruth Constance Comstock (1891–1988), was from Orange, New Jersey.

She gave birth to three sons: Schuyler, Eugene and Adams.

1912

Entering politics, was the first Democrat to win a countywide seat in Nassau County, New York since 1912, when regular Republicans and the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party split the Republican vote.

In his three three-year terms as county executive, Nickerson took a more liberal approach than his Republican predecessors, often working to expand social services for the needy in what was then one of the nation's fastest-growing counties.

He was an early advocate of environmental protection, expanded Nassau County's park system, recruited college graduates for the police force, and favored progressive zoning regulations to open up housing opportunities to minorities and the poor.

He later described his years in the post as reorienting "government to concern itself with human beings and their problems."

1918

Eugene Hoffman Nickerson (August 2, 1918 – January 1, 2002) was the Democratic county executive of Nassau County, New York, from 1962 until 1970.

1937

But shortly before he entered Harvard College in 1937, Nickerson was stricken by polio.

He graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

1943

In 1943, he graduated from Columbia Law School with a Bachelor of Laws, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review.

1944

Following graduation, he clerked for Judge Augustus Noble Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the United States Supreme Court from October 1944 to April 1946.

He worked for Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, then Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson.

1952

Referring to the man who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956, Nickerson once explained, "Adlai Stevenson turned me into a Democrat. I was active in his first campaign, and I stayed active. He brought in other people like myself who had intense interests about government, of ideals and principles."

1962

Nickerson served as Nassau County Executive in New York from January 1, 1962, to December 31, 1970.

1968

Pressed by Robert F. Kennedy, who recognized Nickerson's political talents, he ran for the United States Senate in 1968 but lost in the Democratic primary.

Nickerson was occasionally seen as an unusual member of the Democratic Party.

1970

From 1970 until his appointment to the bench in October 1977, Nickerson was a name partner and litigator with the firm Nickerson, Kramer, Lowenstein, Nessen, Kamin & Soll, now known as Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.

1977

Nickerson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 16, 1977, to a seat vacated by Orrin Judd.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 20, 1977, and received his commission on October 21, 1977.

Nickerson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on August 16, 1977, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York vacated by Judge Orrin Grimmell Judd.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 20, 1977, and received his commission on October 21, 1977.

1980

On August 26, 1980, President Jimmy Carter nominated Nickerson to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to replace Judge Murray Gurfein, who had died in 1979.

However, given that the nomination occurred after the unofficial Thurmond Rule governing judicial nominations during presidential election years, the Senate never took up Nickerson's nomination.

1981

President Ronald Reagan chose instead to nominate Lawrence W. Pierce to the seat in September 1981.

Pierce was confirmed by the United States Senate in November 1981.

1994

He assumed senior status on January 1, 1994, which he continued until his death on January 1, 2002.

Nickerson was a descendant both of the Nickerson family of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and of President John Quincy Adams.

He assumed senior status on January 1, 1994, which continued until his death on January 1, 2002.

2001

Nickerson was the only Democrat to be elected county executive in Nassau County until 2001.

Later, as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, he presided over a challenge to the Pentagon's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuality and the notorious Abner Louima police brutality case in New York.

2002

Nickerson died January 1, 2002, in New York City aged 83, following complications after stomach surgery.