And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

At age 34 Bayh was elected to the United States Senate in the 1962 midterm elections defeating 18-year incumbent Homer E. Zimny suffered fatal injuries. Faced with another constitutional crisis Bayh’s subcommittee quickly began hearings on an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.

Birch Evans Bayh Jr. He is the father of former Indiana Governor and former U. Senator Evan Bayh and Christopher Bayh a lawyer in Washington D.