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DonViejo

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Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:38 AM Mar 2019

Birch Bayh, former Indiana Senator, Title IX author, dies at 91

Source: USA Today



John Tuohy, Maureen Groppe, Shari Rudavsky and Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star Published 9:08 a.m. ET March 14, 2019 | Updated 9:14 a.m. ET March 14, 2019

Birch Bayh, a farm boy from Terre Haute, Indiana, who would ascend to legislative titan during three terms in the United States Senate as the author of two constitutional amendments and a bill that gave women equal opportunity in colleges and universities, died early Thursday morning of pneumonia, according to a statement from the family. He was 91.

Bayh, the father of two-term senator and Indiana governor Evan Bayh, was remembered by his son, colleagues and friends as a relentless champion of civil rights who left his imprint during the 1960s and 1970s on several pieces of landmark legislation.

“He had a natural sympathy for the underdog and the downtrodden. So that’s why he always tried to champion opportunity and decency for people who are born without a lot of either,” Evan Bayh said. “My father was an extrovert who was devoted to his fellow citizens and trying to make their lives better – and he succeeded. And I can’t imagine a better legacy.”

Bayh grew up on a farm in Terre Haute and served four terms in the Indiana House of Representatives beginning in 1954 before successfully running for U.S. Senate in 1962 at age 34.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/14/birch-bayh-death-obituary-indiana-senator-25-amendment-title-ix-bayh-dole-act/3160438002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomwashington-topstories

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Birch Bayh, former Indiana Senator, Title IX author, dies at 91 (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2019 OP
k and r I like this one paragraph, words by Evan Bayh his son, Thanks for posting this. Stuart G Mar 2019 #1
One of our best n/t TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #2
Bayh on the Electoral College mobeau69 Mar 2019 #3
Wow. BumRushDaShow Mar 2019 #4
Rest In Peace, Senator Bayh. gademocrat7 Mar 2019 #5
Lost his Senate seat to Dan Quayle in 1980 with the help of the Dominionists (Phyllis Schlafly) yellowcanine Mar 2019 #6
That one still hurts Bob Loblaw Mar 2019 #9
Author of the classic campaign message: "I'm Birch Bayh and I am a politician"... brooklynite Mar 2019 #7
That's a loss... hlthe2b Mar 2019 #8

Stuart G

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1. k and r I like this one paragraph, words by Evan Bayh his son, Thanks for posting this.
Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:41 AM
Mar 2019

“He had a natural sympathy for the underdog and the downtrodden. So that’s why he always tried to champion opportunity and decency for people who are born without a lot of either,” Evan Bayh said. “My father was an extrovert who was devoted to his fellow citizens and trying to make their lives better – and he succeeded. And I can’t imagine a better legacy.”

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