Bobby Jindal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Age, Net Worth, Biography

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American politician; two-term Governor of Louisiana

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Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016.
Jindal previously served as a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives and as the vice chair of the Republican Governors Association.In 1996, Jindal was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
In 1999, he was appointed president of the University of Louisiana System.
At 28, Jindal became the youngest person to hold the position.
In 2001, President George W.
Bush appointed Jindal as principal adviser to the U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Services.Jindal first ran for governor of Louisiana in 2003, but narrowly lost in the run-off election to Democratic candidate Kathleen Blanco.
In 2004, he was elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives, becoming the second Indian American in Congress.
He was re-elected in 2006.
Jindal ran for governor again in the 2007 election and won.
Jindal was re-elected in 2011 in a landslide, winning more than 65 percent of the vote.
He was the first Indian American governor, and the only one until South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was elected in 2010.On June 24, 2015, Jindal announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election.
He suspended his campaign in November 2015, subsequently announcing his support for Marco Rubio.
He finished his term as governor in January 2016.

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