But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.

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.