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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge) is the Republican Governor-elect of the US state of Louisiana He is also a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Louisiana's 1st congressional district, where he was elected in 2004 to succeed current US Senator David Vitter Jindal was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote He will take his oath as governor on January 14, 2008
Biography
Jindal (pronounced IPA: /'d??nd??l/) was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Indian immigrants, Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school According to family lore, Jindal adopted the name Bobby after watching The Brady Bunch television program at age four He has been known by that name ever since, as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer Legally though his name remains Piyush Jindal
Jindal was a Hindu but converted to Catholicism as a teenager He has also offered testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations since the beginning of the 2007 campaign season He attended high school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School In 1991, he graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honors in biology and public policy Afterwards, he received a master's degree in political science from New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar While at Oxford, he wrote an article for the New Oxford Review claiming he personally witnessed a friend being possessed by a demon After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm
He is the only Indian-American currently serving in Congress, and the second in congressional history after Dalip Singh Saund, a Democrat who represented California's 29th District from 1957 to 1963
He was chosen by Scholastic Update magazine as "one of America's top 10 extraordinary young people for the next millennium"
He was India Abroad Person of the Year in 2005
In 1997, he married Supriya Jolly (born 1972) The couple has three children, Celia, Shaan, and Slade
On Tuesday, August 15, 2006, Jindal assisted in delivering his third child when his wife awoke, in labor The child was born before ambulances had time to respond
Appointments
In 1995, US Congressman Jim McCrery (R-LA) introduced his former aide (Jindal) to Republican Governor Murphy J Foster, Jr Foster subsequently appointed Jindal, then aged twenty-four, to be Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals, an agency then representing about 40 percent of the state's budget; he served from 1996 to 1998 From 1998 to 1999, he was executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare He was also the youngest-ever president of the University of Louisiana System between 1999 and 2001 Newly-elected President George W Bush appointed him Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; he held that post from July 9, 2001 to February 21, 2003
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