Birch Evans "Evan" Bayh III is a lawyer who served as U.S. Senator (D-Indiana) from 1999 to 2011. He earlier served as the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. During his Senate career, Bayh served on five Senate committees: Banking Housing and Urban Affairs, on which he is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance; Armed Services; the Select Committee on Intelligence; the Special Committee on Aging; and the Small Business Committee.
According to Biography.com: “More conservative than his liberal father, the second Sen. Bayh established himself as a centrist who seeks common ground with Republicans. In the Senate, Bayh organized a group called the New Democrat Coalition, and in 2001 he became chairman of the influential Democratic Leadership Council. A member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, Bayh was co-sponsor of the resolution which authorized President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq in 2003.”