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Revision as of 02:57, 3 December 2004 by 68.100.209.60 (talk)(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. He easily won his race, taking 78% of the vote.
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 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. His previous public service includes time as the Louisiana Secretary of Department of Health & Hospitals, The youngest ever president of the University of Louisiana System, 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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