Born in Brooklyn, New York, Haneman was raised in East Orange, New Jersey.
[1][2] In 1944, Governor of New Jersey Walter E. Edge appointed Haneman to serve on the Court of Common Pleas.
He died on January 10, 1978, of a heart attack while traveling to his winter home in Naples, Florida.
[5] The Atlantic County, New Jersey Bar Association sponsors the Vincent S. Haneman-Joseph B. Perskie Scholarship.
[6] New Jersey Route 87 includes the Justice Vincent S. Haneman Memorial Bridge which crosses the Absecon Channel between Atlantic City and Brigantine.