|birth_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
|spouse=Supriya Jindal
|children=Three children
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|office=[[Governor]] of Louisiana
|preceded=[[Kathleen Blanco]]
|succeeded=[[John Bel Edwards]]
|office2=[[U.S. Representative]] for [[Louisiana]]'s 1st congressional districtCongressional District<br> (suburban [[New Orleans]])
|term_start2=January 3, 2005
|term+end2term_end2=January 14, 2008
|preceded2=[[David Vitter]]
|succeeded2=[[Steve Scalise]]
}}
'''Piyush "Jindal''', known as '''Bobby" Jindal''' (born June 10, 1971) , is the immediate past [[governor]] of [[Louisiana]]. He was elected October 20, 2007 and sworn into office on January 14, 2008. At the time, he was the youngest American governor in office.<ref>"Jindal ... made history in 2007 when, at 36, he was elected the nation's first Indian-American governor and became the youngest governor in office." [https://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/sotn.jindal.speech/index.html?iref=mpstoryview (CNN)]</ref> On June 25, 2015, Jindal announced his candidacy for the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nomination in the [[2016 presidential election]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/politics/bobby-jindal-announces-bid-for-president.html?_r=0</ref>
==BiographyBackground==
Jindal was born in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]] to recently arrived Punjabi Indian immigrants, Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school. His family is of Punjabi ancestry, his father left [[India]] in the 1970s and his ancestral family village of Khanpura. Jindal was raised a [[Hinduism|Hindu]] but converted to [[Catholicism]] in high school. 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.
In 1994, Jindal went to work for McKinsey and Company as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies before entering public service. In 1996, he was appointed Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH). There were many issues that needed resolving during his tenure, not the least of which was the growing deficit in Louisiana's Medicaid program. During Jindal's tenure as DHH Secretary, he rescued Louisiana's Medicaid program from bankruptcy, childhood immunizations increased, Louisiana ranked third best nationally in health care screenings for children, and new and expanded services for elderly and disabled persons were offered.
In 1998, Jindal was appointed Executive Director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. As Executive Director, he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Commissioncommission, whose work continue to be the driving force behind much of the ongoing debate on how to strengthen and improve Medicare.
At the conclusion of the Commissioncommission's work, Jindal was appointed President of the University of Louisiana System, the 16th largest higher education system in the country. While serving as Presidentpresident, Jindal worked to establish areas of excellence at each individual institution.
===Political career===
President [[George W. Bush]] appointed Jindal to serve as Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2001. In that position, he served as the principal policy advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He later resigned from the position in 2003 to return to Louisiana and run for Govenor. In that race, Jindal went from being a relatively unknown candidate for Governor, to receiving the most votes in the primary election. However, with 48 percent of the vote in the runoff, he lost the election.
In 2004 he was elected to the 109th United States Congress representing the First District of Louisiana. In Congress he was elected Freshman Class President and served on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the House Committee on Homeland Security, and the House Committee on Resources. Bobby He also served as Assistant Majority Whip. He was re-elected to Congress in November 2006 with 88 percent of the vote.
In his first term he passed a number of notable pieces of legislation and played an instrumental role in Louisiana's recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. His noteworthy accomplishments include the passage of legislation to bring significant offshore energy revenues to Louisiana for the first time and legislation that keeps Federal Emergency Management Agency from taxing certain recovery grants as income. ===Gubernatorial highlights===[[Image:Jindal2.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Governor Jindal with his wife]]Jindal was re-elected to Congress in 2006 with 88 percent of the vote majority. On January 22, 2007, Jindal announced his candidacy for governor. Polling data showed him with an early lead in the race, and he remained the favorite throughout the campaign. He defeated eleven opponents in the jungle nonpartisan blanket [[primary ]] held on October 20, including two prominent [[Democratic Party|Democrats]]. He went on to win the gubernatorial election with 54 percent of the vote and carried Jindal was criticized by [[liberal]]s for his plans to reject portions of economic stimulus money to extend unemployment benefits to those who would not ordinarily qualify for the funds.<ref>"Jindal rejects unemployment money (for those who normally wouldn't get it) in the jungle primarystimulus, winning " ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' date missing.</ref> Jindal was criticized for a speech he gave in 60 of response to President [[Barack H. Obama]], when Jindal questioned the 64 parishesuse of some stimulus money, including volcano monitoring.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500267,00.html|title="Geologist Erupts at Jindal's Volcano Question"|publisher=FOX News Channel|date=Undated}}</ref>
== As In his first term as governor ==Jindal has not escaped , with the political consultant [[liberalTimmy Teepell]] criticism for his plans to reject portions as chief of economic stimulus money to extend unemployment benefits to those who would not ordinarily qualify for the monies.<ref>"Jindal rejects unemployment money (for those who normally wouldn't get it) the in stimulus," ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' date missing.</ref> Jindal was criticized for a speech he gave in response to President staff and [[Barack H. ObamaJimmy Faircloth]]as executive counsel, when Jindal questioned obtained passage of legislation to assist in the recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He also obtained the use passage of some stimulus money, including volcano monitoringlegislation to bring significant offshore energy revenues to Louisiana and legislation to prevent the Federal Emergency Management Agency from taxing certain recovery grants as income.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500267,00.html|title="Geologist Erupts at Jindal's Volcano Question"|publisher=FOX News Channel|date=Undated}}</ref>
[[Image:Jindal2.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Governor Jindal with his wife]] Jindal handily won reelection in 2011 against a weak field of opponents who lack name recognition. He won majorities in sixty of the sixty-four parishes. As he began his second term as governor in 2012, Jindal tapped the Democrat-turned [[Moderate Republican]] [[John Alario]] of Jefferson Parish as the state Senate President, a choice then affirmed by all but one of the sitting senators, [[Barrow Peacock]] of [[Shreveport]]. Alario was subsequently supported of the tax package offered by Democratic Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], Jindal's successor.
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