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Robert Edmund Bauman
(April 4, 1937 - living) U.S.A.

Robert Bauman

Lawyer, conservative activis

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Born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pa., Bauman attended Catholic and public schools including Easton (Maryland) High School until 1953. He graduated at Capitol Page School, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in 1955; B.S., international affairs, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1959; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1964. Bauman was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1964 and to the District of Columbia bar and commenced practice in Easton.

President of the far-right group Young Americans for Freedom, chairman of the American Conservative Union, and former Republican member of Congress (1953 - 1959) Maryland who had voted against pro-gay legislation in Congress. Elected as a Republican, by special election, August 21, 1973, to the Ninety-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William O. Mills; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses, and served from August 21, 1973, to January 3, 1981; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress; was a candidate for nomination in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress.

Outed after being arrested in 1980 for soliciting sex from a 16-year old male, he finally admitted he was gay in 1983 and his wife had their marriage annulled. Bauman withdrew his candidacy before the election and resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; is a resident of Washington, D.C. In 1986 he wrote the personal memoir The Gentleman from Marland: The Conscience of a Gay Conservative, in which he discussed the need for legal changes to protect gay men and lesbians from discrimination and harassment.

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