Birch Bayh, Senator Who Amended Constitution Twice, Dies at 91
- Wrote amendments on presidential succession, lower voting age
- Democrat served Indiana in the U.S. Senate for three terms
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Birch Bayh, the U.S. senator from Indiana who pulled his friend Edward Kennedy from the wreckage of a crashed plane and wrote two of the last three amendments to the Constitution, has died. He was 91.
Bayh died Thursday morning of pneumonia, according to a statement from his family.