Stanley J. Bauer (May 3, 1913 – October 1972) was an American union official and Republican politician from

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Life

He was born on May 3, 1913, in

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. He was business agent for Local 36 of the American Federation of Grain Millers. Bauer was a member of the

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from 1951 to 1958, sitting in the 168th, 169th, 170th and

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s. He was also a delegate to the

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and an alternate delegate to the

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. In February 1961, he was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of

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. In June 1962, he pleaded guilty on one count and was fined $5,000. In November 1962, he ran again for the State Senate but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat Frank J. Glinski. In 1965, he was arrested for having attempted to "fix" an extortion case in the Erie County Court for $2,000. In June 1968, he was convicted of grand larceny and

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and sentenced to one year in the Erie County Jail, and two and a half to five years in

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. He served 19 months in Attica before he was paroled out of jail in January 1972. He was found dead on October 5, 1972, in his room at the Touraine Hotel in

, having been dead for several days.''Stanley J. Bauer, 58, Dies; Ex-Republican State Senator''
in the ''

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'' on October 8, 1972 (subscription required)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bauer, Stanley J. 1913 births 1972 deaths Politicians from Buffalo, New York Republican Party New York (state) state senators New York (state) politicians convicted of crimes 20th-century American legislators