Birch Bayh | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/12/2018

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Birch Bayh


00:02:17 1 Early life
00:02:26 1.1 Youth and education
00:03:48 1.2 Indiana legislature and 1962 Senate campaign
00:05:26 2 United States Senator
00:05:36 2.1 Drafter of constitutional amendments
00:06:31 2.1.1 Presidential disability and succession
00:07:38 2.1.2 Lowering the voting age to 18
00:08:58 2.2 1964 plane crash
00:10:52 2.3 Women's rights
00:11:01 2.3.1 Equal Rights Amendment
00:13:00 2.3.2 'The Father of Title IX'
00:14:49 2.4 Haynsworth and Carswell nominations
00:17:43 2.5 Electoral College reform
00:18:34 2.6 Prison reform for juvenile offenders
00:19:43 2.7 1976 presidential campaign
00:21:40 2.8 Bayh–Dole Act
00:23:12 2.9 Senate reelection campaigns
00:24:15 3 Post-Senate career
00:24:24 3.1 Legal Practice and Business Dealings
00:24:59 3.2 Advocacy and honors
00:27:45 3.3 Personal life
00:28:29 4 Electoral history
00:28:38 5 Writings



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Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (born January 22, 1928) is an American politician and former U.S. Senator from Indiana, serving from 1963 to 1981. He is the only non-Founding Father to author two amendments, XXV and XXVI, to the United States Constitution and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 1976.
Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Bayh won election to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1954, and eventually became the youngest Speaker of the House in Indiana history. In 1962, he narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Senator Homer E. Capehart. Bayh became Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments in 1963, and in that role Bayh authored two constitutional amendments. The Twenty-fifth Amendment establishes procedures for an orderly transition of power in the case of the death, disability, or resignation of the President of the United States. The Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 throughout the United States. 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 banned gender discrimination in higher education among institutions receiving federal funding. Bayh also authored the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act and co-authored the Bayh–Dole Act. He led the Senate opposition to Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, two of President 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. Since leaving the Senate, he has 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 Senate seat from 1999 to 2011.