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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map). He easily won his race, taking 78% of the vote. He succeeded David Vitter, who declined to run for reelection in order to run for Louisiana's Senate seat being vacated by John Breaux. (Vitter won.)
Jindal, born to Indian immigrants, as a Hindu but converted to Catholicism while in high school. He graduated from Brown University with honors in biology and public policy. Afterwards, he received a master's degree in politics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He will be the only Indian-American in the next Congress, and only the second ever, after Dalip Singh Saund, to serve in the U.S. Congress.
He narrowly lost a runoff election for Governor of Louisiana to then-Lt. Governor Kathleen Blanco in 2003. Many political analysts believe that his loss was partly due to the fact that white conservatives from northern Louisiana did not vote for Jindal because he is not white. Other political analysts believe that Jindal lost because of his refusal to answer questions about his record and policies he enacted during his public service. His previous public service includes time as the Louisiana Secretary of Department of Health & Hospitals, Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, and Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was also the youngest ever president of the University of Louisiana System.
External Links
Little India Article about Jindal.
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