Birch Bayh

Birch Evans Bayh Jr. lived from January 22, 1928 to March 14, 2019 and was an American politician from Indiana who served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1954 to 1962 and in the United States Senate for three terms from 1963 to 1981. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution he authored two constitutional amendments, the Twenty-fifth Amendment establishing procedures for presidential succession and disability, and the Twenty-sixth Amendment lowering the voting age to eighteen; he is the only person since James Madison, and the only non-Founding Father, to have authored more than one constitutional amendment. He also authored Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965, banning sexism in federally funded higher education, authored the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, and co-authored the Bayh-Dole Act on intellectual property from federally funded research. He voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and led Senate opposition to two of Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominees. He lost his bid for a fourth Senate term in 1980 to Dan Quayle.