Birch Evans 'Evan' Bayh III (/baɪ/ BY; born December 26, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 46th governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997 and as a United States senator representing Indiana from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he currently serves on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. Bayh is the son of Senator Birch Bayh, Jr. and the grandson of basketball coach Birch E. Bayh. He was first elected to public office as the Secretary of State of Indiana in 1986. He held the position for two years before being elected Governor. He left his office after completing two terms and briefly took a job lecturing at Indiana University Bloomington. He was elected to Congress as a Senator in 1998 and reelected in 2004. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)