Birch Bayh

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.Cruikshank, Kate. [http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=8621 The Art of Leadership; A Companion to an Exhibition from the Senatorial Papers of Birch Bayh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121228194809/http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=8621 |date=December 28, 2012 }}. (Indiana University Libraries, 2007)

From 1946 to 1948, Bayh served as a Military Police Corps with the United States Army in occupied Germany following World War II.{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2lsbAAAAIBAJ&pg=4387,4776683&dq=birch+bayh&hl=en |title=82German Families Fed|work=The Pittsburgh Press|via=Google News Archive Search}} He excelled in sports, competing as a Golden Gloves boxer in college{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/15/archives/birch-bayh-isnt-a-household-wordyet-senator-birch-bayh.html |title=Birch Bayh Isn't a Household Word—Yet |first=Robert |last=Sherrill |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 15, 1970 }} and taking part in two Major League Baseball tryouts.{{cite web |url=http://www.birchbayh.com/id2.html |title=Legislative Summary |website=www.birchbayh.com}} 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. 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.{{cite web |url=https://libraries.indiana.edu/ |title=Indiana University Libraries |website=libraries.indiana.edu}}

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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. 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.birchbayh.com/id1.html |title=Biography |website=www.birchbayh.com}}

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".{{cite web |last=Self |first=David |title=13 Days script by David Self |url=http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/13_days.html |work=The Daily Script|access-date=December 6, 2012}}

Bayh's success was attributed to a vigorous campaign of 300 speeches between Labor Day and the election, and a catchy campaign jingle that taught voters the correct pronunciation of his last name:

{{blockquote | Hey, look him over,

He's your kind of guy.

His first name is Birch,

His last name is Bayh.{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829383,00.html |title=Nation: Indiana: Codgerism |magazine=Time |date=November 16, 1962 |via=content.time.com}}}}

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.

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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.

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. As chairman, Bayh was the principal architect of two constitutional amendments.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/obituaries/birch-bayh-dead.html |title=Birch Bayh, 91, Dies; Senator Drove Title IX and 2 Amendments |last=Clymer |first=Adam |date=March 14, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=March 16, 2019 |issn=0362-4331}}

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. 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. It has since been invoked six times,{{cite web|url=https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxv|title=The 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution|website=National Constitution Center|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314223236/https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxv|archive-date=March 14, 2019|access-date=March 17, 2019}} most notably in the 1973 vice presidential and 1974 presidential succession of Gerald Ford.

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.{{Cite book|last=Blaemire|first=Robert|title=Birch Bayh: Making a Difference|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2019|isbn=978-0-253-03917-0|location=Herman B Wells Library, 1320 East 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405|pages=77}}

File:Senator Birch Bayh addresses a group of students.jpgAs 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.

As such, Senator Bayh is the only person since the Founding Fathers to have drafted more than one amendment to the United States Constitution.

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.{{cite book |last=Lippman Jr. |first=Theo |title=Senator Ted Kennedy |year=1976 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company Inc. |location=New York |pages=24–6}} 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.{{cite book |last=Kennedy |first=Edward M. |title=True Compass |url=https://archive.org/details/truecompassmemoi00kenn/page/218 |url-access=registration |year=2009 |publisher=Twelve |location=New York|pages=218–221}}

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".{{cite book |last=Shrum |first=Robert |title=No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner |url=https://archive.org/details/noexcusesconcess00shru/page/89 |url-access=registration |year=2007 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |page=89|isbn=9780743296519 }}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/griffiths|title=Martha Griffiths and the Equal Rights Amendment|date=August 15, 2016|website=National Archives|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203223807/https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/griffiths|archive-date=December 3, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/march-22-1972-equal-right-amendment-for-women-passed-by-congress/|title=Equal Rights Amendment for Women Passed by Congress (March 22, 1972)|date=March 22, 2012|website=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203010330/https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/march-22-1972-equal-right-amendment-for-women-passed-by-congress/|archive-date=December 3, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}}

In 1970, Bayh witnessed one of these efforts to pass the ERA languish and fail due to poor-wording and "poison pill" conservative amendments. 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.{{cite news|author1-link=Eileen Shanahan (journalist)|last=Shanahan |first=Eileen |title=BAYH SUBSTITUTES EQUAL RIGHTS BID |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/15/archives/bayh-substitutes-equal-rights-bid-new-version-to-be-studied-when.html|access-date=February 10, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 15, 1970}} 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.{{cite news |last=Shanahan |first=Eileen |title=Equal Rights Amendment Is Approved by Congress |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/23/archives/equal-rights-amendment-is-approved-by-congress-equal-rights.html|access-date=February 10, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 23, 1972}} 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. Bayh successfully fought to extend the seven-year ratification period to June 30, 1982,{{cite news |title=SENATORS SEEK EXTENSION OF EQUAL RIGHTS DEADLINE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/18/archives/senators-seek-extension-of-equal-rights-deadline.html|access-date=February 10, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 18, 1978}} but the Equal Rights Amendment ultimately failed.

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".{{cite news |last=Feinsilber |first=Mike |title=ERA — Why did it fail? |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QPlLAAAAIBAJ&pg=3228,995125&|access-date=February 10, 2013 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |date=July 4, 1982}}

File:BirchWorkout.jpgBayh was influential in the addition of Title IX to the Higher Education Act, to give women equal opportunities in public education. Bayh was Title IX's author, the first person to introduce it in Congress,{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/birch-bayh-indiana-senator/|title=Ex-Sen. Birch Bayh, author of constitutional amendments and Title IX, dies at 91|last=Bohn|first=Kevin|date=March 14, 2019|publisher=CNN|access-date=March 17, 2019}} and its chief Senate sponsor.

As Bayh was getting the Equal Rights Amendment out of committee, 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.118 Cong. Record 5802-3 (1972).

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".118 Cong. Record 5804 (1972).

"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".118 Cong. Record 5808 (1972).

Title IX became law on June 23, 1972,[http://www.now.org/issues/title_ix/history.html "Legislative History of Title IX"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624070911/http://www.now.org/issues/title_ix/history.html |date=June 24, 2010}} National Organization for Women. June 27, 2007. and is best known for expanding opportunities for female athletes. Bayh has since been called "the father of Title IX".{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/title-ix-40th-anniversary-equal-rights-womens-sports/story?id=16629846 |title=Happy Birthday, Title IX! Equal Rights for Women's Sports |date=June 23, 2012 |website=ABC News}}

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.{{cite news |last=Sheehan |first=Neil |title=C. F. Haynsworth Named by Nixon for High Court |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/19/archives/c-f-haynsworth-named-by-nixon-for-high-court-us-appellate-judge.html|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 19, 1969}} 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. By October, Bayh was widely recognized as "the leading opponent"{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Hollings Pushes Debate With Indiana's Senator |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hoMsAAAAIBAJ&pg=1914,2024921&dq=|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=Spartanburg Herald-Journal |date=October 11, 1969}} 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",{{cite news |last=Graham |first=Fred P. |title=Senator Defends Haynsworth Acts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/10/08/archives/senator-defends-haynsworth-acts-hollings-contends-charges-are.html|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 8, 1969}} ultimately uncovering several additional instances where Haynsworth had conflicts and misled in his Senate Judiciary testimony.{{cite news |last=Graham |first=Fred P. |title=Haynsworth Foes Enlist 2 Leaders Of Senate G.O.P. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/10/09/archives/leading-republicans-oppose-choice-for-high-court-haynsworth-foes.html|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 9, 1969}} Thus, in November 1969, Bayh and 54 other senators rejected the nomination.{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Senate Rejects Haynsworth 55-45 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P0xSAAAAIBAJ&pg=6250,661368&|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=St. Petersburg Times |date=November 22, 1969}}

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. They did so and reported back that Carswell's civil rights decisions had been reversed sixty percent of the time.{{cite news |last=Graham |first=Fred P. |title=Carswell relies on precedent |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sZ4yAAAAIBAJ&pg=980,1178046& |access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=The Palm Beach Post |date=January 22, 1970 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} With their research in hand, "Bayh led the opposition interrogation of Carswell in the two weeks of committee hearings", United Press International reported.{{cite news |last=United Press International |title=Liberals Try Delay |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rFBPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3933,3364065&|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=The Times-News |date=February 17, 1970}} The Senate rejected Carswell's nomination by a vote of 51 to 45.{{cite news |agency=Reuters |title=Nixon snubbed as court nominee Carswell defeated |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RYIuAAAAIBAJ&pg=1022,2241838&|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=The Montreal Gazette |date=April 9, 1970}}

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".{{cite news |last=Graham |first=Fred P. |title=Bayh Says Nixon Errs On His Role |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/03/archives/bayh-says-nixon-errs-on-his-role-scores-view-of-presidential-power.html|access-date=April 14, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 3, 1970}} Harry Blackmun was ultimately nominated and confirmed to fill the vacancy.{{cite news |last1=Mackenzie |first1=John P. |title=Blackmun Confirmed 94 to 0 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 13, 1970}} 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.

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.{{cite news |title=Lists of White House 'Enemies' and Memorandums Relating to Those Named |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2061EFE3F5F10738DDDA10A94DE405B838BF1D3|access-date=June 11, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 28, 1973}}

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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/birch-bayh-constitution.html |title=Opinion: The Man Who Changed the Constitution, Twice |last=Wegman |first=Jesse |date=March 14, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=March 16, 2019 |issn=0362-4331}} One of Bayh's proposals passed the House easily but was filibustered in the Senate. In 1977 he introduced reform legislation into the Senate,

{{cite web |url=http://www.every-vote-equal.com/pdf/EVE-Foreword-Bayh.pdf |title=Foreword |work=Every Vote Equal | access-date=March 28, 2009 |first=Birch |last=Bayh |author-link=Birch Bayh |date=March 1, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905054552/http://www.every-vote-equal.com/pdf/EVE-Foreword-Bayh.pdf |archive-date=September 5, 2008 |quote=On January 10, 1977, I introduced S.J. Res.1, a proposed Amendment to the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College and provide for direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States. As Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, I held five days of hearings on this ... |url-status=dead }}

but it never achieved the required two-thirds vote in either house of Congress. In 2006, he joined the National Popular Vote Inc. coalition, which aims to effect Electoral College reform through an interstate compact.{{cite web |url=https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/the-bill-to-move-the-country-toward-direct-presidential-elections-why-californias-governor-schwarzenegger-and-other-governors-should-sign-it.html |title=The Bill To Move the Country Toward Direct Presidential Elections Why California's Governor Schwarzenegger, And Other Governors, Should Sign It |last=Amar |first=Vikram |date=September 29, 2006 |website=Findlaw |access-date=March 16, 2019}} Bayh wrote a foreword to the book Every Vote Equal by John Koza, a co-founder of National Popular Vote.{{cite web |url=https://politi.co/2HiGmxj |title=Former Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh dies at 91 |last=Cohen |first=David |date=March 14, 2019 |website=Politico |access-date=March 16, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/electoral-college-gives-trump-and-gop-boost/576448/ |title=The Electoral College Conundrum |last=Richards |first=Parker |date=November 23, 2018 |website=The Atlantic |access-date=March 16, 2019}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://libraries.indiana.edu/birch-bayh-biography |title=Birch Bayh Biography |date=November 2, 2009|access-date=September 16, 2016}} After chairing 1971 hearings on brutality and corruption in the youth prison system,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/04/archives/senators-told-of-brutality-to-young-offenders-juvenile-justice-in.html |title=Senators Told of Brutality to Young Offenders |author=Nan Robertson |date=May 4, 1971 |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331|access-date=September 16, 2016}} Bayh introduced legislation in February 1972, which was signed into law in 1974.{{cite news |title=Juvenile-crime bill on Ford's desk |last=Stuart |first=Peter C. |date=September 6, 1974 |work=The Christian Science Monitor|id={{ProQuest|511682519}} }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ojjdp.gov/about/legislation.html |title=Legislation/JJDP Act |website=www.ojjdp.gov|access-date=September 16, 2016}} 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".{{cite news |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=6736 |title=Juvenile Justice Amendments of 1977 Remarks on Signing H.R. 6111 Into Law. |date=October 3, 1977 |publisher=American Presidency Project |first=Jimmy |last=Carter |author-link=Jimmy Carter}}

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.{{cite news |last1=Witcover |first1=Jules |title=Bayh Announces Presidential Bid |work=The Washington Post |date=October 22, 1975}} With a liberal record and farm boy demeanor, Bayh's candidacy was premised on his 'electability.' His campaign literature was headlined, "Yes He Can".{{cite news |last1=Mohr |first1=Charles |title=Bayh's Main Premise: That He's Electable |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03EED61138E53BBC4C51DFB467838E669EDE|access-date=July 31, 2014 |work=The New York Times |date=December 24, 1975|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810222142/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03EED61138E53BBC4C51DFB467838E669EDE|archive-date=August 10, 2014|url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite news |last1=Shogan |first1=Robert |title=Bayh Fails by Minuscule Margin to Win Presidential Support of Liberal Coalition |work=Los Angeles Times |date=December 7, 1975}}

On the eve of the January 19, 1976, Iowa caucuses, Bayh and former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter were considered the leading candidates.{{cite news |last1=Apple Jr. |first1=R.W. |title=Carter and Bayh Favored in Iowa |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/19/archives/carter-and-bayh-favored-in-iowa-2-seem-ahead-in-todays-democratic.html|access-date=July 31, 2014 |date=January 19, 1976}} Bayh ultimately finished a distant third behind Uncommitted delegates and Carter,{{cite news |last1=Apple Jr. |first1=R. W. |title=Carter Is Regarded As Getting Big Gain From Iowa Results |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806EFD9103CE334BC4951DFB766838D669EDE|access-date=July 31, 2014 |work=The New York Times |date=January 21, 1976|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810222051/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806EFD9103CE334BC4951DFB766838D669EDE|archive-date=August 10, 2014|url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite news |last1=Charles |first1=Charles |title=Abortion Dispute Troubling Bayh |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/12/archives/abortion-dispute-troubling-bayh-senator-is-target-of-more-picketing.html|access-date=July 31, 2014 |date=February 12, 1976}} Liberal support did not coalesce and Bayh finished third in the New Hampshire primary and then seventh in the Massachusetts primary.{{cite news |last1=Mohr |first1=Charles |title=How the Bayh Race Deteriorated |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/04/archives/how-the-bayh-race-deteriorated.html|access-date=July 31, 2014 |date=March 4, 1976}}

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".{{cite news |last1=Claiborne |first1=William |title=Bayh Ends Quest for Nomination |work=The Washington Post |date=March 5, 1976}}

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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.

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,{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703578607/former-indiana-sen-birch-bayh-a-great-hoosier|title=Former Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh — 'A Great Hoosier'|last=Smith|first=Brandon|date=March 14, 2019|work=NPR|access-date=March 17, 2019}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/patent-and-trademark-system-reform-statement-signing-hr-6933-into-law|title=Patent and Trademark System Reform Statement on Signing H.R. 6933 Into Law|last=Carter|first=Jimmy|date=December 12, 1980|website=The American Presidency Project (www.presidency.ucsb.edu)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317041401/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/patent-and-trademark-system-reform-statement-signing-hr-6933-into-law|archive-date=March 17, 2019|access-date=March 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.1/odza.html|title=Bayh-Dole and technology transfer|last=Odza|first=Michael|date=1998|website=Columbia University ("21stC", vol. 3.1)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517035327/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.1/odza.html|archive-date=May 17, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}}

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".{{cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2002/12/12/innovations-golden-goose |title=Innovation's golden goose |date=December 12, 2002 |newspaper=The Economist}} 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.{{cite web |last1=Pressman |first1=Lori |title=The Economic Contribution of University/Nonprofit Inventions in the United States: 1996-2013 |url=https://www.bio.org/sites/default/files/BIO_2015_Update_of_I-O_Eco_Imp.pdf |publisher=Biotechnology Industry Organization|access-date=March 24, 2015|display-authors=etal}}

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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.{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BgQqAAAAIBAJ&pg=4665,3287363&dq |work=The Milwaukee Journal|via=Google News Archive Search}}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 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.{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1974election.pdf|title=Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 1974|last1=Guthrie|first1=Benjamin J.|last2=Jennings|first2=W. Pat|author-link2=W. Pat Jennings|date=August 1, 1975|website=House.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113055920/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1974election.pdf|archive-date=November 13, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=6361|title=U.S. Senate election results (Indiana, 1974)|date=January 22, 2004|website=Our Campaigns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724093219/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=6361|archive-date=July 24, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}} Two years later, Lugar won Indiana's other Senate seat by ousting Democratic incumbent Vance Hartke.{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1976election.pdf|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1976|last1=Guthrie|first1=Benjamin J.|last2=Henshaw|first2=Edmund L.|date=April 15, 1977|website=House.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113055925/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1976election.pdf|archive-date=November 13, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3449|title=U.S. Senate election results (Indiana, 1976)|date=November 2, 1976|website=Our Campaigns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215172712/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3449|archive-date=December 15, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}}

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,{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-29RAAAAIBAJ&pg=6589,4231440&dq= |title=Veep Debate Finally Matters|work=Toledo Blade|via=Google News Archive Search}} and was defeated for reelection in the Republican landslide year, with 46.2% of the vote to Quayle's 53.8%.{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1980election.pdf|title=Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1980|last1=Ladd|first1=Thomas E.|last2=Henshaw|first2=Edmund L.|date=April 15, 1981|website=House.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113055933/http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1980election.pdf|archive-date=November 13, 2018|access-date=March 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3883|title=U.S. Senate election results (Indiana, 1980)|date=January 9, 2003|website=Our Campaigns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306054929/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3883|archive-date=March 6, 2016|access-date=March 17, 2019}}

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/birch-bayh-indiana-senator-who-championed-title-ix-dies-at-91/2019/03/14/cf659402-465d-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html|title=Birch Bayh, Indiana senator who championed Title IX, dies at 91|last=Barrett|first=Laurence I.|date=March 14, 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 17, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/25400-law-firm-evolution-hints-how-evan-bayh-could-follow-in-his-fathers-footsteps-again?v=preview |title=Law firm evolution hints how Evan Bayh could follow in his father's footsteps – again |website=www.theindianalawyer.com|date=December 21, 2010 }} Bayh also served on a number of corporate boards.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=657210&privcapId=3568650&previousCapId=8539106&previousTitle=Wells+Fargo+RE,+Inc.|title=Birch Bayh: Executive Profile & Biography – Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|date=June 2023 }}

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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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} On August 19, 2004, Bayh filed an amicus brief in another case relating to Title IX, Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education.{{cite web|url=https://ogc.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj10131/f/brief_amicus_curiae_of_birch_bayh_december_23_2010.pdf|title=Brief amicus curiae of Birch Bayh in support of petitioner|last=Bayh|first=Birch|date=December 23, 2010|website=Stanford.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317051401/https://ogc.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj10131/f/brief_amicus_curiae_of_birch_bayh_december_23_2010.pdf|archive-date=March 17, 2019|access-date=March 17, 2019}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/02-1672.htm|title=No. 02-1672: Roderick Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education|date=May 15, 2003|website=SupremeCourt.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204947/https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=%2Fdocketfiles%2F02-1672.htm|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=live|access-date=March 17, 2019}}

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. 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".{{cite web |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/563/776/ |title=Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 563 U.S. 776 (2011) |website=Justia Law |access-date=March 16, 2019}}

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.{{cite web |title=National Popular Vote |url=http://www.nationalpopularvote.com|access-date=March 12, 2013}}

Bayh served as a member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board,{{cite web |title=President Clinton Names Birch Bayh to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board |url=http://clinton6.nara.gov/2001/01/2001-01-08-fulbright-named-to-the-foreign-scholarship-board.html |publisher=The White House|access-date=November 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111024120752/http://clinton6.nara.gov/2001/01/2001-01-08-fulbright-named-to-the-foreign-scholarship-board.html|archive-date=October 24, 2011|url-status=dead }} as co-chair of the University of Virginia's Miller Center National Commission on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment,{{cite web |title=The Miller Center's National Commissions |url=http://millercenter.org/policy/commissions/priorcommissions |publisher=Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia |access-date=November 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006044706/http://millercenter.org/policy/commissions/priorcommissions |archive-date=October 6, 2012 }} and as founding chairman of the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence.

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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;{{Cite web|url=https://www.indstate.edu/education/About/history|title=About Bayh College of Education: History|publisher=Indiana State University|access-date=March 17, 2019}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.wadeburleson.org/2018/02/the-life-and-legacy-of-enids-marvella.html |title=The Life and Legacy of Enid's Marvella Belle Bayh |last=Burleson |first=Wade |website=Istoria Ministries Blog |access-date=March 16, 2019}}

Bayh's first wife was Marvella Bayh of Enid, Oklahoma.Bayh, Marvella and Kotz, Mary Lynn. Marvella: A Personal Journey. New York City: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1979. Their son Evan Bayh was born on December 26, 1955. Marvella Bayh died of breast cancer on April 24, 1979. Bayh subsequently married Katherine "Kitty" Halpin in 1981. Their son Christopher was born on July 22, 1982.

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.washcoll.edu/live/profiles/10005-birch-bayh |title=Birch Bayh |website=www.washcoll.edu |access-date=September 16, 2016 |archive-date=September 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917161056/https://www.washcoll.edu/live/profiles/10005-birch-bayh |url-status=dead }}

Bayh died of pneumonia on March 14, 2019, in Easton, Maryland, at the age of 91.{{cite web |title=Birch Bayh, former Indiana Senator, Title IX author, dies at 91 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/14/birch-bayh-death-obituary-indiana-senator-25-amendment-title-ix-bayh-dole-act/3160438002/ |website=USA Today |date=March 14, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/former-sen-birch-bayh-champion-of-title-ix-dies-at-91 |title=Former Sen. Birch Bayh, champion of Title IX, dies at 91 |last=Davies |first=Tom |agency=Associated Press |work=PBS NewsHour |date=March 14, 2019 |access-date=March 14, 2019}} He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery.{{cite news|url = https://howeypolitics.com/Content/Default/Trevor-Foughty/Article/Trevor-Foughty-Lt-Lugar-and-Pvt-Bayh-will-rest-at-Arlington/-3/392/21509|title = Trevor Foughty: Lt. Lugar and Pvt. Bayh will rest at Arlington|last = Foughty|first = Trevor|work = Howey Politics|date = July 14, 2019|accessdate = January 15, 2022|archive-date = January 16, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220116032639/https://howeypolitics.com/Content/Default/Trevor-Foughty/Article/Trevor-Foughty-Lt-Lugar-and-Pvt-Bayh-will-rest-at-Arlington/-3/392/21509|url-status = dead}}

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• The Making of an Amendment. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. 1966.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0IGUhxqUuYC&pg=PA38|title=Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789–2002|last=Vile|first=John R.|date=2003|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781851094288}}
• [https://books.google.com/books/about/One_heartbeat_away.html?id=tQgmAAAAMAAJ One Heartbeat Away: President Disability and Succession]. Bobbs-Merrill. 1968. {{ISBN|9780672511608}}.
• For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America (introduction chapter). Ballantine Books. 1976.

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• 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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