For his father, the basketball and baseball coach, see Birch Bayh (coach).
Birch Bayh
Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1981
Preceded by
Daniel Inouye
Succeeded by
Barry Goldwater
United States Senator from Indiana
In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1981
Preceded by
Homer Capehart
Succeeded by
Dan Quayle
Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives
In office November 5, 1958 – November 9, 1960
Preceded by
George Diener[1]
Succeeded by
Richard Guthrie
Member of the Indiana House of Representatives from the Vigo County district
In office November 3, 1954 – November 7, 1962
Preceded by
John Brentlinger[2]
Succeeded by
Hubert Werneke
Personal details
Born
Birch Evans Bayh Jr.
(1928-01-22)January 22, 1928 Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Died
March 14, 2019(2019-03-14) (aged 91) Easton, Maryland, U.S.
Resting place
Arlington National Cemetery
Political party
Democratic
Spouses
Marvella Hern
(m. 1952; died 1979)
Kitty Halpin
(m. 1981)
Children
2, including Evan
Education
Purdue University (BS) Indiana State University Indiana University Bloomington (LLB)
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
United States
Branch/service
United States Army
Years of service
1946–1948
Rank
Private (1st Class)
Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (/baɪ/;[3] January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as U.S. Senator from Indiana from 1963 to 1981. He was first elected to office in 1954, when he won election to the Indiana House of Representatives; in 1958, he was elected Speaker, the youngest person to hold that office in the state's history. In 1962, he ran for the U.S. Senate, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Homer E. Capehart. Shortly after entering the Senate, he became Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, and in that role authored two constitutional amendments: the Twenty-fifth—which establishes procedures for an orderly transition of power in the case of the death, disability, or resignation of the President of the United States—and the Twenty-sixth, which lowered the voting age to 18 throughout the United States. He is the first person since James Madison and only non–Founding Father to have authored more than one constitutional amendment. Bayh also led unsuccessful efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and eliminate the Electoral College.
Bayh authored Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which bans gender discrimination in higher education institutions that receive federal funding. He also authored the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, and co-authored the Bayh–Dole Act, which deals with intellectual property that arises from federal-government-funded research. Bayh voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968,[4][5] as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court.[6][7] He led the Senate opposition to the nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, two of Richard Nixon's unsuccessful Supreme Court nominees. Bayh intended to seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, but declined to run after his wife was diagnosed with cancer. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, but dropped out of the campaign after disappointing finishes in the first set of primaries and caucuses.
Bayh won re-election in 1968 and 1974, but lost his 1980 bid for a fourth term to Dan Quayle. After leaving the Senate, he remained active in the political and legal world. His son, Evan Bayh, served as the 46th Governor of Indiana and held his father's former U.S. Senate seat from 1999 to 2011.
^"Speakers of the Indiana House". Capitol & Washington. March 3, 2015. Archived from the original on November 2, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2021.
^"Chronological listing of State Representatives for Vigo County". Capitol & Washington. September 28, 2019. Archived from the original on December 3, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2021.
^"Say How: B". National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
^"HR. 7152. PASSAGE".
^"TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN SALE OR RENTAL OF HOUSING, AND TO PROHIBIT RACIALLY MOTIVATED INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON EXERCISING HIS CIVIL RIGHTS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES".
^"TO PASS S. 1564, THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965".
^"CONFIRMATION OF NOMINATION OF THURGOOD MARSHALL, THE FIRST NEGRO APPOINTED TO THE SUPREME COURT". GovTrack.us.
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neoclassical architecture, including the American Legion, Central Library, and BirchBayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse. The district is also home...
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of Illinois Incumbent Democrat BirchBayh ran for a fourth term, but was defeated by Republican Dan Quayle. BirchBayh, the incumbent senator, faced no...
Senator BirchBayh was re-elected to a second consecutive term in office, defeating Republican State Representative William Ruckelshaus. BirchBayh, incumbent...
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(1.50%) Fred R. Harris - 234,568 (1.47%) Milton Shapp - 88,254 (0.56%) BirchBayh - 86,438 (0.54%) Walter Fauntroy - 10,149 (0.05%) Arthur O. Blessitt –...
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