{{OfficeholderInfobox officeholder
|name=Bobby Jindal
|image=Bobby Jindal.jpg
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]|birth_date=June 10, 1971|birth_place=[[Baton Rouge]], [[Louisiana]]
|spouse=Supriya Jindal
|children=Three children|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]|offices= {{Officeholder/governor |stateoffice=[[Governor]] of Louisiana |termsterm_start=January 14, 2008 – Present |term_end=January 2016|preceded=[[Kathleen Blanco]] |former=n |succeeded=[[John Bel Edwards]] }} {{Officeholder/representative |stateoffice2=[[U.S. Representative]] for [[Louisiana |district=]]'s 1stCongressional District<br> (suburban [[New Orleans]]) |termsterm_start2=January 3, 2005 – |term_end2=January 14, 2008 |precededpreceded2=[[David Vitter]] |former=n |succeededsucceeded2=[[Steve Scalise }}]]
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'''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>
'''Piyush "Bobby" ==Background==Jindal''' is was born in the governor capital city of [[LouisianaBaton Rouge]]. He was elected October 20to recently arrived Punjabi Indian immigrants, 2007 Amar and sworn into office January 14Raj Jindal, 2008who were attending graduate school. He His family is of Punjabi ancestry, his father left [[India]] in the youngest American governor in office1970s and his ancestral family village of Khanpura.<ref>"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.. made history in 2007 whenHe has been known by that name ever since, at 36as a civil servant, politician, student, he was elected the nation's first Indian-American governor and became the youngest governor in officewriter." [http://wwwLegally though his name remains Piyush Jindal.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/sotn.jindal.speech/index.html?iref=mpstoryview (CNN)]</ref>
Jindal was born in Baton Rouge on June 10, 1971 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. He graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1987 and went on to attend [[Brown University]] where he graduated with honors in biology and public policy. Following his graduation from Brown he attended [[Oxford University]] in the [[United Kingdom]] as a [[Rhodes Scholar]], having turned down admissions to medical and law schools at both [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and [[Yale University|Yale]].
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>
In his first term as governor, with the political consultant [[Timmy Teepell]] as chief of staff and [[Jimmy Faircloth]] as executive counsel, Jindal obtained passage of legislation to assist in the recovery from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He also obtained the passage of legislation to bring significant offshore energy revenues to Louisiana and legislation to prevent the Federal Emergency Management Agency from taxing certain recovery grants as income.
== Criticism ==[[Image:Jindal2.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|Governor Jindal with his wife]]
Jindal has not escaped [[liberal]] criticism for his plans to reject portions handily won reelection in 2011 against a weak field of Economic Stimulus money to extend unemployment benefits to those opponents who wouldn't ordinarily receive themlack name recognition.<ref>"Jindal rejects unemployment money (for those who normally wouldn't get it)LA to receive He won majorities in stimulus" [http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/newssixty of the sixty-46/123517585334490four parishes.xml&storylist=louisiana&thispage=1 (AP Louisiana News)]</ref>. Jindal was criticized for a speech As he gave began his second term as governor in response to President Obama2012, when Jindal questioned tapped the use Democrat-turned [[Moderate Republican]] [[John Alario]] of some stimulus moneyJefferson Parish as the state Senate President, including volcano monitoringa choice then affirmed by all but one of the sitting senators, [[Barrow Peacock]] of [[Shreveport]].<ref>"Geologist Erupts at Alario was subsequently supported the tax package offered by Democratic Governor [[John Bel Edwards]], Jindal's Volcano Question" [http://www.foxnewssuccessor.com/story/0,2933,500267,00.html (FOX News)]</ref>
==References==
*[http://www.gov.state.la.us/ Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal] '''official state site'''
*[http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=12431010 March 11, 2009 Interview on ''Fox and Friends'']
*[httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h5DD_I7WL8 February 22, 2009 Interview on ''Meet the Press'']*[http://www.bobbyjindal.com Bobby Jindal 2016 campaign website]
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