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Birch Bayh Quotes
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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| Birth: | 22nd January, 1928 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Lawyer, Politician |
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Birch Bayh was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He is a former United States Senator from Indiana who served from 1963 to 1981. He is the only non-Founding Father to author two amendments to the United States Constitution and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 1976. He is the father of former Indiana Governor and former U.S. Senator Evan Bayh and Christopher Bayh, a lawyer in Indianapolis, Indiana. 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. While he served in the legislature, Bayh studied law at Indiana University’s School of Law, received his JD in 1960, and was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1961.
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