Stephen Morse Wheeler

Stephen Morse Wheeler (August 30, 1900 – March 7, 1967) was a justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1957 to 1967.

Born in Atkinson, New Hampshire, Wheeler served in the United States Army in World War I, and was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives from his home town in 1923, Kenison endorsed his assistant, Ernest D. D'Amours, to succeed him as attorney general, but Governor Blood preferred Wheeler, and the state council approved Wheeler as the governor's nominee, by a 3-2 vote. Wheeler served from 1942 to 1944. He then served on the New Hampshire Superior Court until March 15, 1957, when Governor Lane Dwinell appointed Wheeler to the state supreme court.

Wheeler was married to Marion Taylor, with whom he had two sons. Wheeler died from a heart attack while shoveling snow outside his home in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the age of 66.