You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

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.