Former Senator Birch Bayh has passed away.

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3. NY Times article - he was principal architect of 25th Amendment (Presidential removal)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/obituaries/birch-bayh-dead.html

Birch Bayh, 91, Dies; Senator Drove Title IX and Other Historic Legislation

By Adam Clymer

March 14, 2019

Birch Bayh, the liberal former senator from Indiana whose work in Congress had an enduring impact on American life — in protecting women from sex discrimination in education, guaranteeing 18-year-olds the right to vote and providing for the removal of a sitting president — died on Thursday at his home in Easton, Md.. He was 91.

The cause was pneumonia, the family said in a statment announcing his death.

Mr. Bayh, a Democrat who served in the Senate from 1963 to 1981, was the principal architect of two constitutional amendments: the 25th, which dealt with presidential disability and vice-presidential vacancies, and the 26th, which gave 18-year-olds the vote in both state and federal elections.

He also championed Title IX, drafting the language for that landmark federal legislation, which barred sex discrimination at schools and colleges and greatly expanded sports programs for women.
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