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Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (Template:IPAc-en;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of United States Senate 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 United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, 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 United States Electoral College.
Bayh authored Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which bans sexism 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 the Civil Rights Act of 1968,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court of the United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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, who later became vice president under President George H.W. Bush. 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.
Early lifeEdit
Youth and educationEdit
Bayh was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of Leah Ward (née Hollingsworth), a teacher, and Birch Bayh, an intercollegiate coach and athletic director. His ancestry included ancestors who were German, English, Scotch-Irish, and Scottish. Bayh spent summers on his grandparents' farm in Shirkieville, Indiana, where he later lived. As a student at New Goshen (Fayette Township) High School, young Birch took part in speaking contests, played baseball and basketball, and won the Indiana 4-H Tomato Championship.<ref name="Cruikshank">Cruikshank, Kate. The Art of Leadership; A Companion to an Exhibition from the Senatorial Papers of Birch Bayh Template:Webarchive. (Indiana University Libraries, 2007)</ref>
From 1946 to 1948, Bayh served as a Military Police Corps with the United States Army in occupied Germany following World War II.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He excelled in sports, competing as a Golden Gloves boxer in college<ref name="Household">Template:Cite news</ref> and taking part in two Major League Baseball tryouts.<ref name="Goodheart">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bayh graduated from the Purdue University School of Agriculture in 1951, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity and senior class president.<ref name="Cruikshank" /> In 1951, he won Alpha Tau Omega's highest individual collegiate award, the Thomas Arkle Clark Award. He married Marvella Hern in August 1952, and took courses at Indiana State University in Terre Haute for two years while also running the family farm.<ref name="SenatePapers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Indiana legislature and 1962 U.S. Senate campaignEdit
Bayh's political career began at age 26 with his election to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1954, where he served two years as Speaker and four years as Democratic Floor Leader. At the time, Bayh was the youngest Speaker in Indiana state history.<ref name="Household" /> While he served in the legislature, Bayh studied law at Indiana University's School of Law, received his LL.B. in 1960, and was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1961.<ref name="Biography">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
At age 34, Bayh was elected to the United States Senate in the 1962 midterm elections, defeating 18-year incumbent Homer E. Capehart. Capehart was outspoken on the threat of Soviet nuclear missiles being placed in Cuba, and was buoyed by the Cuban Missile Crisis of that October. Bayh's disadvantage was dramatized in the opening scene of the 2000 film Thirteen Days, as President John F. Kennedy rattles a newspaper and asks an aide, "You see this goddamn Capehart stuff?" and the aide responds, "Bayh's going to lose".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Bayh's success was attributed to a vigorous campaign of 300 speeches between Labor Day and the election,<ref name="Cruikshank" /> and a catchy campaign jingle that taught voters the correct pronunciation of his last name:<ref name=":4" />
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For more than four decades — throughout his entire career in politics — Bayh continued to manage the growing of corn and soybeans on his family farm.<ref name="Goodheart" />
United States SenatorEdit
Drafter of constitutional amendmentsEdit
As a freshman senator, Bayh was assigned to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. While his service on the Public Works Committee allowed him to assist Hoosier with various problems, Bayh's work on the subcommittees of the Judiciary Committee had the most lasting effect.<ref name="Cruikshank" />
Bayh was serving on the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution in August 1963 when its chairman, Estes Kefauver, died of a heart attack. Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland planned to terminate the subcommittee to save money, but Bayh offered to serve as chairman and pay for its staff out of his Senate office budget. Thus, Bayh assumed the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee chairmanship less than a year into his first term.<ref name="Cruikshank" /> As chairman, Bayh was the principal architect of two constitutional amendments.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
Presidential disability and successionEdit
After President Dwight D. Eisenhower's health issues in the 1950s, Congress began studying the Constitution's dangerously weak and vague provisions for presidential disability and vice presidential succession. The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy brought a new urgency to the matter. Bayh introduced an amendment on December 12, 1963, which was studied and then re-introduced and passed in 1965 with Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.<ref name="Cruikshank" /> The resulting Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1967, created a process for a peaceful transition of power in the case of death, disability, or resignation of the President, and a method of selecting a vice president when a vacancy occurs in that office.<ref name="Goodheart" /> It has since been invoked six times,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> most notably in the 1973 vice presidential and 1974 presidential succession of Gerald Ford.<ref name=":0" />
In 1968, Bayh wrote One Heartbeat Away, a book about the passage of the Twenty-fifth Amendment. In the foreword, Lyndon Johnson describes the accomplishment as, "He initiated and brought to fruition the first major alteration of Presidential and Vice-Presidential succession procedures since the ratification of the Constitution". The book's preface is by former President Eisenhower, who wrote about the sixteen times there had been a vacancy in the office of Vice President and the measures taken to authorize Vice President Richard Nixon to act in his stead during the illnesses he experienced as president.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Lowering the voting age to 18Edit
As a state legislator in the 1950s, Bayh unsuccessfully worked to lower the voting age in Indiana. He continued his effort in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he also met opposition. In 1970, a new provision was added to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lowering the voting age to 18 in all federal, state, and local elections. Then with the 1971 Oregon v. Mitchell decision, the Supreme Court ruled that state and local elections did not have to abide by the lowered voting age, though there would have to be dual elections in the 47 states where the lower federal voting age was not valid. Faced with another constitutional crisis, Bayh's subcommittee quickly began hearings on an amendment to lower the voting age to 18. What became the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed through Congress within weeks of the Supreme Court's decision, and was ratified by the states within months.<ref name="Cruikshank" />
As such, Senator Bayh is the only person since the Founding Fathers to have drafted more than one amendment to the United States Constitution.<ref name="Goodheart" />
1964 plane crashEdit
On June 19, 1964, Bayh, his wife, United States Senate member Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and legislative aide Edward Moss were on a small plane that crashed near Springfield, Massachusetts. The group was flying from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (then known as Washington National Airport) to the Massachusetts Democratic party's convention, where Bayh was to be the keynote speaker. Senators Bayh and Kennedy were delayed by a vote which passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It had been held up by a filibuster. At approximately 11 p.m., the plane descended through heavy fog and crashed into an apple orchard. Bayh suffered muscular trauma and his wife fractured two vertebrae, but they were able to walk out of the wreckage. Kennedy was seriously injured, fracturing three vertebrae, breaking ribs and puncturing a lung, while Moss and the pilot, Edwin J. Zimny, suffered fatal injuries.<ref name=":4">Template:Cite book</ref> Thrown to the front of the plane, Kennedy could not move from his waist down and could not reply to Bayh's calling, "Is there anybody alive up there? Is anybody alive?" Bayh smelled gas and thought the plane might catch fire and explode, so he went back into the fuselage to check for survivors. At this point, Kennedy called out, "I'm alive, Birch!" and Bayh pulled Kennedy out of the plane to safety. Bayh went back again to check on Moss and Zimny, but they were unresponsive. Bayh and his wife then walked to the road to call for help.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1980, Bayh endorsed President Jimmy Carter for reelection, a decision that rankled the staff of Ted Kennedy, who was challenging Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kennedy's campaign adviser Bob Shrum called Bayh "a son of a bitch" in front of Kennedy, but as Shrum wrote in his memoir, "Kennedy was disappointed in Bayh, but he didn't want to hear anyone bitching about him. Bayh, he said, had a pass, and always would".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Women's rightsEdit
Equal Rights AmendmentEdit
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), to establish equal rights for men and women under the Constitution of the United States, was first introduced in 1923 and then in every subsequent Congress for the next fifty years, with little to no success.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1970, Bayh witnessed one of these efforts to pass the ERA languish and fail due to poor-wording and "poison pill" conservative amendments.<ref name="Cruikshank" /> Through his Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee, Bayh drafted a new version of the ERA to be taken up by the 92nd United States Congress. Bayh based his appeal on extending the rights already guaranteed in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to a person's gender. The new version immediately won support from two important Senators who had opposed the earlier bill: Ted Kennedy and Robert P. Griffin, the assistant Republican leader.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After the House approved its version under the leadership of Martha Griffiths of Michigan, the Senate easily passed Bayh's ERA in March 1972, sending it to the states for ratification.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The amendment had seven years to win approval in thirty-eight states. Thirty states ratified the ERA within the first two years, and another four joined in 1974 and 1975. Bayh's home state of Indiana was the final state to ratify the ERA in January 1977, but by then, three states had rescinded their ratification, and three more would do so by the end of 1979.<ref name="Cruikshank" /> Bayh successfully fought to extend the seven-year ratification period to June 30, 1982,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> but the Equal Rights Amendment ultimately failed.<ref name=":1" />
Bayh would later say he never anticipated how effective conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly "telling flat-out lies" would be. "[Bayh] says he will never forget", the Associated Press reported, "how she went on Indiana television, set her Social Security card on fire and argued that women would lose constitutional protections if ERA won".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
"The Father of Title IX"Edit
Bayh was influential in the addition of Title IX to the Higher Education Act,<ref name=":1" /> to give women equal opportunities in public education. Bayh was Title IX's author, the first person to introduce it in Congress,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and its chief Senate sponsor.<ref name=":1" />
As Bayh was getting the Equal Rights Amendment out of committee,<ref name="Cruikshank" /> the Higher Education Act of 1965 was on the floor for reauthorization, and on February 28, 1972, Senator Bayh introduced the ERA's equal education provision as an amendment.<ref>118 Cong. Record 5802-3 (1972).</ref>
In his remarks on the Senate floor, Bayh said, "We are all familiar with the stereotype of women as pretty things who go to college to find a husband, go on to postgraduate education because they want a more interesting husband, and finally marry, have children, and never work again. The desire of many schools not to waste a 'man's place' on a woman stems from such stereotyped notions. But the facts absolutely contradict these myths about the 'weaker sex' and it is time to change our operating assumptions".<ref>118 Cong. Record 5804 (1972).</ref>
"While the impact of this amendment would be far-reaching", Bayh concluded, "it is not a panacea. It is, however, an important first step in the effort to provide for the women of America something that is rightfully theirs — an equal chance to attend the schools of their choice, to develop the skills they want, and to apply those skills with the knowledge that they will have a fair chance to secure the jobs of their choice with equal pay for equal work".<ref>118 Cong. Record 5808 (1972).</ref>
Title IX became law on June 23, 1972,<ref>"Legislative History of Title IX" Template:Webarchive National Organization for Women. June 27, 2007.</ref> and is best known for expanding opportunities for female athletes. Bayh has since been called "the father of Title IX".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Haynsworth and Carswell nominationsEdit
During the 91st United States Congress, Bayh successfully led the Senate opposition to two of President Richard Nixon's nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States.
In August 1969, Nixon nominated Clement Haynsworth, a federal judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, to a vacancy on the Supreme Court created by the resignation of Abe Fortas on May 14, 1969.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Labor and civil rights leaders, concerned with Haynsworth's conservative record on workers' and civil rights, soon discovered that Haynsworth had recently ruled in a favor of a company in which he owned stock, and after questioning him on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bayh felt Haynsworth did not recognize his own conflict of interest.<ref name=Cruikshank /> By October, Bayh was widely recognized as "the leading opponent"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> of the nomination, and The New York Times reported how he "worked with his staff into the night to complete a "bill of particulars" of alleged financial conflicts by Judge Haynsworth",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> ultimately uncovering several additional instances where Haynsworth had conflicts and misled in his Senate Judiciary testimony.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Thus, in November 1969, Bayh and 54 other senators rejected the nomination.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On January 19, 1970, Nixon nominated G. Harrold Carswell of Florida, whom the Senate had confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit exactly seven months earlier. Carswell's judicial record was even more conservative then Haynsworth's and generally acknowledged to be mediocre, but after the earlier defeat of the latter's nomination, most doubted there would be another major battle. Then a group of Yale Law School students visited Bayh in Washington and asked how they could help. Bayh suggested that they research every case that Carswell had decided in his judicial career.<ref name=Cruikshank /> They did so and reported back that Carswell's civil rights decisions had been reversed sixty percent of the time.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref> With their research in hand, "Bayh led the opposition interrogation of Carswell in the two weeks of committee hearings", United Press International reported.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Senate rejected Carswell's nomination by a vote of 51 to 45.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Nixon publicly criticized Bayh and Senate opponents for overstepping their proper constitutional role, to which Bayh replied in a Senate floor speech by quoting from Article Two of the United States Constitution and calling the President "wrong as a matter of constitutional law, wrong as a matter of history and wrong as a matter of public policy".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Harry Blackmun was ultimately nominated and confirmed to fill the vacancy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Bayh later supported and voted to confirm Nixon's nomination of Lewis F. Powell Jr., whom he knew well from work on the Twenty-fifth Amendment.<ref name=Cruikshank />
In an undated White House memorandum made public on June 27, 1973, Bayh's name appeared on the master list of Nixon's political opponents, a supplement to Nixon's Enemies List.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Electoral College reformEdit
The proposed Constitutional change with which Bayh was most closely associated in his final years in the Senate was his attempt to eliminate the United States Electoral College (the method of electing the President of the United States) and replace it with a popular vote in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref> One of Bayh's proposals passed the House easily but was filibustered in the Senate. In 1977 he introduced reform legislation into the Senate,<ref name=":3"> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} </ref> but it never achieved the required two-thirds vote in either house of Congress.<ref name=":2" /> In 2006, he joined the National Popular Vote Inc. coalition, which aims to effect Electoral College reform through an interstate compact.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bayh wrote a foreword to the book Every Vote Equal by John Koza, a co-founder of National Popular Vote.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Prison reform for juvenile offendersEdit
As chairman of the Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, Bayh was the author, sponsor and chief architect of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, overhauling the youth prison system, including the requirement that juvenile offenders be separated from adults.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After chairing 1971 hearings on brutality and corruption in the youth prison system,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Bayh introduced legislation in February 1972, which was signed into law in 1974.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Besides the deinstitutionalization of noncriminal offenders, it also created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention within the Department of Justice, to ensure ongoing protections. The landmark legislation was reauthorized in 2002.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> During the October 3, 1977, signing ceremony for H. R. 6111, an extension of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, President Jimmy Carter noted his discontent with Bayh not being in attendance as he had "been very instrumental in the passage of this act".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1976 presidential campaignEdit
Bayh intended to run for the 1972 Democratic nomination for president, but his wife was diagnosed with cancer and he put his plans on hold. Before her death in 1979, Marvella Bayh became a leading anti-cancer activist.
On October 21, 1975, Bayh announced his candidacy for the 1976 Democratic nomination in a tour of his native state. "People are looking to someone who can talk to them in terms they can understand", he said while struggling with laryngitis that day.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> With a liberal record and farm boy demeanor, Bayh's candidacy was premised on his 'electability.' His campaign literature was headlined, "Yes He Can".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In December 1975, Bayh came within a tenth of a percentage point from receiving the endorsement of the influential New Democratic Coalition, a liberal organization based in New York that helped George McGovern win the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On the eve of the January 19, 1976, Iowa caucuses, Bayh and former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter were considered the leading candidates.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Bayh ultimately finished a distant third behind Uncommitted delegates and Carter,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> seemingly hindered by his support for women's rights. "Bayh has become the focal point of the [abortion] issue", said the executive director of the National Right to Life Committee, since Bayh opposed a constitutional amendment banning abortion before his subcommittee.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Liberal support did not coalesce and Bayh finished third in the New Hampshire primary and then seventh in the Massachusetts primary.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bayh suspended his campaign on March 4, 1976, after 136 days as a formal candidate. At his final press conference, he said, "I'm not prepared to crawl under a rock and say the future of Birch Bayh is over".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Bayh–Dole ActEdit
In early 1978, the question of who owns government-funded research and who could therefore profit from it became personal for Bayh, as Marvella's cancer returned and the Bayhs learned that a technology that could predict a patient's reaction to chemotherapy was held up by restrictions on patent rights for federally sponsored research discoveries. This was part of a larger problem of stifling promising inventions, with 22 funding agencies disposing of patent rights in 22 different ways at the time.<ref name="Cruikshank" />
Bayh invited United States Senate member Bob Dole, a Republican from Kansas, to craft a uniform policy. Together, they drafted the university and Small Business Patent Procedures Act, known as the Bayh–Dole Act,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> which allows United States universities, small businesses, and non-profit organizations to retain intellectual property rights of inventions developed from federal government-funded research. It was signed into law by President Carter on December 12, 1980.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2002, The Economist magazine said, "Possibly the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half-century was the Bayh–Dole Act of 1980".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A 2015 study determined that from 1996 to 2013, patent licensing made possible by Bayh–Dole increased gross industry output by approximately $1 trillion, supporting 3.8 million jobs in the United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Senate reelection campaignsEdit
Bayh ran for reelection to the U.S. Senate three times. In the 1968 general election, Bayh defeated challenger William D. Ruckelshaus with 51.7% of the vote against a strong Republican tide, becoming only the fourth Indiana Democrat to be popularly elected to a second term in the Senate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> In 1974, Bayh narrowly defeated Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar, garnering only 50.7 percent of the vote in what was otherwise a disastrous year for Republicans.<ref name=":6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":7">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Two years later, Lugar won Indiana's other Senate seat by ousting Democratic incumbent Vance Hartke.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1980, Bayh faced United States House of Representatives member and future Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle. Bayh engaged the challenger in seven debates,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was defeated for reelection in the Republican landslide year, with 46.2% of the vote to Quayle's 53.8%.<ref name=":8">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":9">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Post-Senate careerEdit
Legal practice and business dealingsEdit
Returning to Indiana after his defeat in the 1980 election, Bayh founded the law firm of Bayh, Tabbert and Capehart, with offices in Indianapolis and in Washington, D.C.. Later in the 1980s he began to spend more time in Washington and left this practice. There he worked with several firms, including the well-known Venable LLP.<ref name=":10">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bayh also served on a number of corporate boards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Advocacy and honorsEdit
In 1981, Bayh joined Robert Drinan, Don Edwards, Edith Green, Patsy Mink and Pat Schroeder to file an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in the case of North Haven Board of Education v. Bell. The brief urged affirmance of the lower court's decision that Title IX proscribes employment discrimination in federally funded education programs. The court agreed.Template:Citation needed On August 19, 2004, Bayh filed an amicus brief in another case relating to Title IX, Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education.<ref name=":11">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Bayh urged reversal of the lower court's holding; the Supreme Court agreed, reversing the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and holding that Title IX created a private right of action to parties alleging retaliation for reporting sex discrimination.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On December 23, 2010, Bayh filed an amicus brief in Stanford v. Roche, a case in which the Supreme Court was asked to determine whether the Bayh–Dole Act required that ownership patents for inventions resulting from federally funded research must automatically go to the federal contractor.<ref name=":11" /> Bayh argued that "a federal contractor's ownership rights to inventions covered by the Bayh–Dole Act cannot be terminated unilaterally by an individual inventor through a separate agreement purporting to assign the inventor's rights to a third party". The court disagreed, writing that "the Bayh–Dole Act does not automatically vest title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors or authorize contractors to unilaterally take title to such inventions".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Bayh continued to advocate for the direct election of the president, speaking with lawmakers around the country about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, in which states agree to pledge their presidential electors to the winner of the national popular vote once a majority of presidential electors join the compact. Bayh served on the advisory board of the non-profit, National Popular Vote, Inc.<ref name=Popular>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Bayh served as a member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as co-chair of the University of Virginia's Miller Center National Commission on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and as founding chairman of the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence.<ref name=Biography />
In 2003, Indianapolis's historic U.S. Courthouse and Post Office was renamed in Bayh's honor as the Birch Bayh Federal Building and United States Courthouse.
In 2009, Indiana State University named their College of Education after the Bayh family;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Senator Bayh was the fourth member of the Bayh family to attend Indiana State University (following his grandmother, father and mother); his late wife, Marvella Hern Bayh, was also an alumna of Indiana State University.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
Bayh's first wife was Marvella Bayh of Enid, Oklahoma.<ref name=":12">Bayh, Marvella and Kotz, Mary Lynn. Marvella: A Personal Journey. New York City: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1979.</ref> Their son Evan Bayh was born on December 26, 1955.<ref name=":5" /> Marvella Bayh died of breast cancer on April 24, 1979.<ref name=":12" /> Bayh subsequently married Katherine "Kitty" Halpin in 1981.<ref name=":5" /> Their son Christopher was born on July 22, 1982.<ref name=":10" />
Birch and Kitty Bayh resided in Easton, Maryland. He was a fellow at the C.V Starr Center for the study of the American Experience of Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Bayh died of pneumonia on March 14, 2019, in Easton, Maryland, at the age of 91.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Electoral historyEdit
PublicationsEdit
- The Making of an Amendment. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1966.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- One Heartbeat Away: President Disability and Succession. Bobbs-Merrill. 1968. Template:ISBN.
- For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America (introduction chapter). Ballantine Books. 1976.
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Johnson, Marc C. Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican Party (U of Oklahoma Press, 2021) 1980 Senate races saw bitter defeats of Frank Church, Birch Bayh, John Culver, and George McGovern and weakened moderates in GOP.
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- The Art of Leadership: A Companion to an Exhibition from the Senatorial Papers of Birch Bayh The Lilly Library Bloomington, Indiana.
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