Feb 7, 2021 / 06:11 AM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The wife of former U.S. Sen. and Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh has died after a long fight with brain cancer and its complications, he announced on his Facebook page on Saturday afternoon. Susan Bayh was 61.
“Susan was an incredible person who led a life full of love, courage, and accomplishment,” said his message in
She died Friday night in McLean, Virginia, in suburban Washington, D.C., the family said.
Her husband, a Democrat, was governor from January 1989 through January 1997, after he’d served four years as Indiana’s secretary of state. She was the 46th “First Lady of Indiana” and was the youngest in 150 years to assume the role at age 29.