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Birch Bayh

American lawyer and politician (1928-2019)

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Birch Evans Bayh Jr. was an American politician from Indiana who served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives representing Vigo County, Indiana, from 1954 to 1962 and as a member of the United States Senate for three terms from 1963 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, 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 United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and in that role authored two constitutional amendments: the 25th Amendment—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 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 throughout the United States. He is the first person to date since James Madison, and the 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 United States Electoral College.

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Occupation: politician, lawyer, farmer, writer
Position held: member of the Indiana House of Representatives, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator
Citizenship: United States
Born: January 22, 1928, 1928
Died: March 14, 2019

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