He held the post for two years, after which he completed two terms as a Governor and briefly took a job in lecturing at Indiana University Kelley School of Business. In the period from 1999 to 2011, he joined the U.S. Senate occupying a seat once held by his father, Birch Bayh. Once he left the Senate, Bayh partnered with the law and lobbying firm McGuireWoods in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, as well as he became a senior adviser with Apollo Global Management. In March 2011, he got hired as a Fox News contributor and later that year he also became a messaging adviser for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. What’s more, he joined the board of directors at Berry Plastics Corp by the end of 2011.