[3] He enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University in his hometown and spent a year at the school before dropping out and moving to Montana.

[5] Haas won re-election in 1970, but resigned on May 11, 1971, when he was appointed to replace Ted Hallock in the Oregon State Senate in District 12.

[3] At the end of Haas' second term he ran for Oregon Attorney General, losing to David B. Frohnmayer in the 1980 election.

[7] In 1984, he won election to a seat on the Multnomah County Circuit Court, and replaced John J. Murchison in January 1985.

[8] Haas' most notable case on the bench came in 1985 with the murder trial of Sandra Jones that was removed from Lincoln County and had Gerry Spence as the attorney for the defendant.