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Education: Brown University , B. Intern to U. Department of Health and Human Services, ; Republican nominee for governor of Louisiana, ; elected to Congress, ; Congressman, —. Bobby Jindal, only the second Indian American to serve in the U. Congress, has a resume as impressive as some politicians in their 60s or 70s. Yet Jindal was only 33 when he became a congressman.

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By then, he had already run for governor of Louisiana and almost won, directed a system of universities in Louisiana, a huge department of state government, and a national commission made up mostly of U. Admirers attribute his success to his intelligence and a confidence that has converted many skeptics. Jindal was born in in Baton Rouge , Louisiana, to parents who had just moved there from India to attend graduate school.

They gave him the name Piyush, but when he was four, he told them he wanted to be called Bobby, after Bobby Brady in the television show The Brady Bunch. Though his parents are Hindu, Jindal converted to Christianity in high school.

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He also worked as an intern for U. In , at age 24, the new governor of Louisiana named Jindal the director of the state health and hospitals department. He got the job by calling Mc-Crery. Jindal told McCrery he would like to be Louisiana's next secretary of health and hospitals, and he asked him to recommend him to the Republican candidate who was leading the race for governor.

McCrery asked Jindal if he would consider an assistant secretary job, but Jindal said no.