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Birch Bayh is a former member of the US Senate from Indiana, 1962-1981, 
and the Indiana State Legislature, 1954-1962.   
 
He is the author of two Amendments to the US Constitution -- the 
Twenty-fifth on Presidential & Vice Presidential succession and the
Twenty-sixth, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 --  and 
such landmark legislation as Title IX to the Higher Education Act 
and the Bayh-Dole Act.  
 
He is a partner in the law firm of Venable LLP in Washington, DC, and 
Senior Fellow of the C. V. Starr Center for the American Experience at
Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
 
202.344.4705 work
410.822.2682 home
 
bbayh@venable.com 


 
 
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