Caleb Howard Baumes was an American lawyer and politician from New York

New York

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Life

He married in 1883 and had two sons.

He was a Republican

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 member from Orange County

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 of the New York State Assembly

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 from 1909 to 1913.

He was a member of the New York State Senate

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 (27th District) from 1919 to 1930. He championed a 1926 law mandating life imprisonment for four-time felony offenders, the Baumes law

Baumes law

-Description:Written by and named after Senator Caleb H. Baumes, the chairman of the New York State Crime Commission, the law called for the automatic life imprisonment of any criminal convicted of more than three separate felonies, without regard to the nature of the offense or any attendant...

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In 1930, he ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York

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 with Albert Ottinger

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 but they were defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 and Herbert H. Lehman

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. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law.

He died on board a train.