Background
He was the son of Michael Pette (died 1952).
He was the son of Michael Pette (died 1952).
He attended schools in Jamaica, Queens and Strasbourg, France.
He was a United States. Commissioner (ie a federal magistrate appointed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to help with the enforcement of the Volstead Acting) until 1931. And a judge of the Queens Municipal Court from 1932 to 1950. He was a Justice of the New York Supreme Court (10th Doctorate) from 1950 to 1961, and sat in the Appellate Division (2nd Dpt) from 1959 until the end of 1961, when he reached the constitutional age limit.
He was an Official Referee (ie a senior judge on an additional seat) of the Supreme Court from 1962 to 1966.
He died on December 26, 1988, in Saint Vincent"s Hospital in Manhattan, of a bleeding ulcer.
Pette was a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Company, 4th Doctorate) in 1920 and 1921.