[3] In 1966 Hayes, then residing in Middlebury ran unsuccessfully for governor, and lost the Republican nomination to Richard A.

[6] In response Governor Deane Davis returned to Vermont from a conference and countermanded Hayes's directive.

[3] He served as Legal Counsel to Governor Thomas P. Salmon, was chairman of the Vermont State Board of Education, and was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court.

[9] At the time of his death, he faced Judicial Conduct Board charges for alleged misconduct along with fellow justices William C. Hill and Ernest W. Gibson III.

[10] (Wheel was later convicted on charges arising from the case; Hill was found to have violated rules regarding judicial conduct.