Wiley also focused on the Kean administration's failure to provide state aid to public schools under the formula dictated by the Public Education Act of 1975 that Wiley had sponsored. Wiley came in a distant fourth place with 8.6 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary; winner Peter Shapiro received 31.0%, State Senator John F. Russo received 26.6%, and Newark mayor Kenneth A. Gibson received 26.1%. Later life At the age of 70, Wiley began writing poetry. He published three books of poetry: Hero Island (published in 2005), Mockingbird Come Home (published in 2007), and Latitudes (published in 2009). In 2012, he and his wife Judy sold their Morris County home and moved full-time to South Hero, Vermont on Lake Champlain; they later moved to nearby Shelburne, Vermont. Wiley died on October 8, 2015 in Shelburne at the age of 86. Wiley was survived by his wife, by their sons Jonathan and Benjamin, by their daughter Katherine, and by several grandchildren. References 1929 births 2015 deaths Princeton University alumni Columbia Law School alumni Morristown High School (Morristown, New Jersey) alumni New Jersey lawyers Democratic Party New Jersey state senators People from Morristown, New Jersey People from Morris Township, New Jersey People from South Hero, Vermont People from Shelburne, Vermont 20th-century American lawyers