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Revision as of 20:40, 6 November 2004 by MisfitToys (talk | contribs) (specify religion, etc)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District.
Jindal, born to Indian immigrants, was raised as a Hindu but converted to Catholicism while in college. 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 in 2003. 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, President of the University of Louisiana System, and Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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