Evan Bayh in My Life, by Bill Clinton

On Principles & Values: Liberal in conservative state; but less so than Birch Bayh

The Senate looked a lot different then from how it looks today. In January 1967, eight states of the Old South still had two Democratic senators each, down from ten before the 1966 elections, but most of them were conservative segregationists. Today, it's the reverse. In the inter-mountain West, now solidly Republican, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming each had one progressive Democratic senator. Indiana, a conservative state, had two liberal Democratic senators, one of who, Birch Bayh, is the father of current Senator Evan Bayh, a gifted leader who might be President someday, but who's not as liberal as his dad was. The only woman in the Senate was a Republican who smoked a pipe, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine. By 2004, there were 14 women senators, nine Democrats and five Republicans. Back then there were also a number of influential liberal Republicans, alas, a virtually extinct group today, including Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, the Senate's only African-American. Source: My Life, by Bill Clinton, p. 96-97 Jun 21, 2004

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