Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge) is the Republican Governor of the U.S. 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 U.S. 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. He is the first non-white governor of Louisiana since Reconstruction and the first Indian American governor in U.S. history. (read the entire Wikipedia article)
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Nationality: American-born (Indian decent)
Political Party: Republican
Spouse: Supriya Jolly Jindal
Religion: Roman Catholic
Three Facts About Bobby Jindal
- He is the first Indian-American governor in U.S. history.
- He will be the youngest sitting governor in the United States. (Jindal is 36)
- He was chosen as "one of America's top 10 extraordinary young people for the next millennium" by Scholastic Update magazine.
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A Little About Indian-Americans
(not to be confused with American-Indians)
Indian Americans are citizens of the United States who claim ancestry originating in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with "American Indian".
In North America the term Indian has an ambiguous meaning. Historically, Indian was commonly used to indicate Native American. If a more specific term was needed to differentiate; American Indian and East Indian were commonly used. American Indian has fallen out of favor and Native American is more commonly used to refer to the Indigenous peoples of North America. East Indian is still in common use. Currently South Asian is often used instead of East Indian. While some consider it derogatory, people of Indian origin use the term Desi to refer to the diasporic subculture of overseas Indians. The word "desi" means "countryman" in Hindi.
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