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- ↑ "Nomination of Salvatore R. Martoche To Be a Member of the National Mediation Board". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ↑ Metzler Lavin, Rosemary (7 March 1990). "A Buffalo lawyer gets top S&L job". New York Daily News. No. page 188.
- ↑ McCarthy, Robert J. (August 27, 2013). "Martoche to retire as State Supreme Court Justice". The Buffalo News. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
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