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Birch Evans Bayh Jr. (/ b aɪ /; [3] January 22, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party , he served as a member of United States Senate from 1963 to 1981.
The closest that the United States has come to abolishing the Electoral College occurred during the 91st Congress (1969–1971). [1] The presidential election of 1968 resulted in Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes (56% of electors), Hubert Humphrey 191 (35.5%), and George Wallace 46 (8.5%) with 13.5% of the popular vote.
Birch Bayh: Succeeded by: Dan Coats: ... In the speech he blamed the violence on a decay of moral values and family structure in American society. [30] In an aside, ...
Incumbent three-term Senator Birch Bayh was defeated by over 160,000 votes to Representative Dan Quayle, who would later go on to be Vice President of the United States. Birch's son Evan would be elected to this very same Senate seat 18 years later in 1998, after previously serving 2 terms as Governor.
Bayh with his father Birch and mother Marvella during his father's 1962 Senate campaign. Birch Evans Bayh III [9] was born on December 26, 1955, in Shirkieville, Indiana, [10] to Marvella Bayh (née Hern; 1933–1979) and Birch E. Bayh Jr. (1928–2019), who was a U.S. Senator from 1963 until 1981, following his electoral defeat by then-Representative and future Vice President Dan Quayle.
The stunning move puts another Senate seat in play and reflects increasing confidence by Democrats that they can retake control of the chamber.
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Birch Bayh was re-elected to a third consecutive term in office, defeating Mayor of Indianapolis Richard Lugar. Lugar would later win the state's other Senate seat in 1976 and would serve alongside Bayh until the latter's defeat in 1980. He would also serve alongside Birch's son Evan from 1999 from 2011.
This is a puzzling turn of events as President Biden, who voted for the original Bayh-Dole Act, has upheld decades of precedent by rejecting demands to reinterpret march-in rights at every turn ...