As some of you know, Evan Bayh didn’t get started in politics on his own. His dad, Birch Bayh, was a big-deal senator from Indiana before him and a presidential hopeful himself. A bit of bonus trivia, it was Sen. Birch Bayh who was in that plane that crashed almost killed Ted Kennedy back in 1964. Bayh dragged the almost-dead Kennedy out of the wreckage of the plane. Ironically, Bayh got driven from office by none other than Dan Quayle in 1980. In some ways, Bayh’s whole career and politics are built around a reaction to that election.
We’ve put together a great slideshow of other pols and the parents who gave them their ticket. Many you’ll know and others you may not know as political legacies. Click the photo to see the whole slideshow.
