During the 1962 election, Capehart was narrowly defeated by 34 year-old Birch Bayh and subsequently, he retired to his farming and business interests in Indiana, occasionally returning to Washington to provide both foreign policy and domestic-issue advice.

He did not seek reelection in 1998, and was succeeded by Evan Bayh.

He was re-elected to the Senate by a large margin in 2010, succeeding Bayh, who announced his own retirement shortly after Coats declared his candidacy.

Bayh had made no previous announcements and was fully expected to run for another term, but after Coats announced his candidacy, Bayh announced his retirement on February 15, 2010.

He was briefly a candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1988, however, instead of facing a hotly competitive primary, O ' Bannon dropped out of the race and accepted the position of running mate under Evan Bayh.

The Bayh / O ' Bannon ticket was successful, and O ' Bannon served in the role as Lieutenant Governor for 8 years.

The Senate New Democrat Coalition was founded in the spring of 2000 by Senators Evan Bayh ( Indiana ), Bob Graham ( Florida ), Mary Landrieu ( Louisiana ), Joe Lieberman ( Connecticut ), and Blanche Lincoln ( Arkansas ).

Bayh was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the son of Birch Evans Bayh, Sr, a coach and athletic director, and Leah Ward ( née Hollingsworth ), a teacher.

Bayh graduated from the Purdue University School of Agriculture in 1951, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega and senior class president.

At the time, Bayh was the youngest Speaker in Indiana state history.

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.

At age 34, Bayh was elected to the United States Senate in the 1962 midterm elections, defeating 18-year incumbent Homer E. Capehart.

As a freshman senator, Bayh was assigned to the Judiciary Committee and the Public Works Committee.

Bayh was serving on the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments in August of 1963 when its chairman Estes Kefauver died of a heart attack.

As chairman, Bayh was the principal architect of two constitutional amendments.

Bayh introduced a amendment on December 12, 1963, which was studied and then re-introduced and passed in 1965 with Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

1970s. Bayh was influential in the addition of Title IX to the Higher Education Act, to give women equal opportunities in public education.

Bayh was Title IX's author, the first person to introduce it in Congress, and its chief Senate sponsor.

As Bayh was having difficulty getting the Equal Rights Amendment out of committee, the Higher Education Act of 1965 was on the floor for reauthorization, and on February 28, 1972, Senator Bayh introduced the ERA's equal education provision as an amendment.

On January 6, 1965, Senator Birch Bayh ( Kefauver's successor as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments ) proposed in the Senate and Representative Emanuel Celler ( Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee ) proposed in the House of Representatives what would become the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

In 1995, Birch Bayh, the primary sponsor of the amendment in the Senate, wrote that Section 4 should have been invoked.

When Quayle decided to challenge three-term Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh in the 1980 U. S. Senate election, Coats ran for and won Quayle's seat in the U. S. House.

Coats served in the Senate until January 1999, when Evan Bayh became the new Senator.

On February 10, 2010, Coats confirmed that he would return to Indiana to run for the seat held by incumbent Evan Bayh in the 2010 United States Senate election.

He is the most recent state Democrat, aside from a member of the Bayh family, to have won and served in the Senate.

The 14 Senate cosponsors of S. 953, the " Peace Act ", included Birch Bayh ( D-IN ), Robert Byrd ( D-WV ), Alan Cranston ( D-CA ), Daniel Inouye ( D-HI ) and Edmund Muskie ( D-ME ).

He won the Republican nomination for U. S. Senate in 1968, but lost in the general election 51 %- 48 % to Birch Bayh.

In his remarks on the Senate floor, Bayh said, " We are all familiar with the stereotype of women as pretty things who go to college to find a husband, go on to graduate school because they want a more interesting husband, and finally marry, have children, and never work again.

The proposed Constitutional change with which Bayh was most closely associated in his final years in the Senate was his attempt to eliminate the Electoral College ( the method of electing the President of the United States ) and replace it with a popular vote in the 1960s and 70s.

Bayh ran for reelection to the U. S. Senate three times.

In 1964, the American Bar Association endorsed the type of proposal which Bayh and Celler advocated.

In 1974, with Indiana senator Birch Bayh, he led the fight to retain Title IX of the 1972 Education Act which guarantees equal educational opportunity to girls and women.

Bayh and his wife were only slightly injured, while the pilot and Moss were both killed.

During the 1970s, 60 Minutes reported that some members of Congress, government, and the press who supported busing most vociferously sent their own children to private schools, including Senator Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Thurgood Marshall, Phil Hart, Ben Bradlee, Senator Birch Bayh, Tom Wicker, Philip Geyelin and Donald Fraser.

The Act, sponsored by two senators, Birch Bayh of Indiana and Bob Dole of Kansas, was enacted by the United States Congress on December 12, 1980.

In spite of Dunn's skepticism, this version has been accepted by Evan Bayh, who has served as Indiana governor and senator, and by Senator Vance Hartke, who introduced this story into the Congressional Record ( 1975 ), according to Graf.

* One Heartbeat Away by Birch Bayh ( 1968 ).

In the spring of 1978, the question of who owns government-funded research and who could therefore profit from it became personal for Bayh, as Marvella's cancer returned and the Bayhs learned that a technology that could predict a patient ’ s reaction to chemotherapy was held up by restrictions on patent rights for federally sponsored research discoveries.

The bill was cosponsored by the nine Senators: Birch Bayh, James O. Eastland, Jake Garn, Walter Huddleston, Daniel Inouye, Charles Mathias, John L. McClellan, Gaylord Nelson, and Strom Thurmond.

The same day, he decertified all government employee unions by executive order, removing the requirement that state employees pay union dues by rescinding a mandate created by Governor Evan Bayh in a 1989 executive order.

The convention's keynote speaker was Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana The nomination speech was given by Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.