page_title: Evan Bayh
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Evan Bayh / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Birch Bayh with son Evan Bayh, wife Marvella Bayh and an unidentified woman during Bayh's 1962 U.S. Senate campaign in Indiana.
context_page_description: Birch Evans Bayh III is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and politician of the Democratic Party who served as the junior United States Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011 and the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997.
  Bayh was first elected to public office as the Secretary of State of Indiana in 1986. He held the position for two years before being elected Governor. He left his office after completing two terms and briefly took a job lecturing at Indiana University Bloomington. He was elected to Congress as a Senator in 1998 and reelected in 2004.
  On February 15, 2010, Bayh unexpectedly announced he would not seek reelection to the Senate in 2010. After leaving the Senate, he was replaced by his predecessor, Dan Coats, and became a partner with the law and lobbying firm McGuireWoods in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, and also became a senior adviser with Apollo Global Management. He was a part-time contributor for Fox News from March 2011 to July 2016. In June 2011 he became a messaging adviser for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. On October 27, 2011, it was announced that Berry Plastics Corp. had appointed Bayh to its board of directors.
context_section_description: Bayh was born in Shirkieville, Indiana, the son of Marvella Bayh (née Hern; 1933–1979) and Birch E. Bayh Jr. (1928–2019), who was a U.S. Senator from 1963 until his 1981 defeat by then-Representative and future Vice President Dan Quayle.
  Evan Bayh attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and graduated with honors with a B.S. in business administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington in 1978. At Indiana, he became a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity's Indiana Beta chapter. 
  Bayh received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1981.
  Bayh and his wife, Susan, have twin sons, Birch Evans IV (Beau) and Nicholas, born in 1995. Susan Bayh serves on corporate boards, including health insurance company Anthem. She was a law professor.
caption: Bayh with his father Birch and mother Marvella during his father's 1962 senate campaign
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