Gov. Bobby Jindal: A Timeline

April 20 - Deepwater Horizon rig explodes.  Leadership and Crisis (Regnery Publishing, Nov. 15)
 Oct. 22 - Re-elected governor wth 65.8% of the vote; nearest competitor T.Hollis 17.9%.
 Jan. 9 - Inaugurated.
Mentioned as possible VP pick for Mitt Romney.
 Chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
Oct. - Announces America Next.
 March 13 - Announces Stand Up to Washington PAC.
 Term-limited.
 Jan. - Tenure as governor ends.
 Jan. 20-On Inauguration Day, Jindal will be 45 years 7.4 months old.

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President Bush appoints Jindal Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Oct. 4 - Finishes first in gub. primary with 32.54% to 18.4% for K.Blanco (D).  Nov. 15 - Def. by K.Blanco 52.0% to 48.1%.
Nov. 2 - Elected to Congress in the 1st CD with 78.4% of the vote.
 Elected Freshman Class President. Nov. 7 - Re-elected to Congress with 88.1% of the vote.
 Oct. 20 - Elected governor with 53.9% of the vote, def. W.Boasso 17.5%, J.Georges 14.4% and F. Campbell 12.5%. 
Mentioned as possible VP pick for John McCain.
Aug. - Oversees emergency prep. for Hurricane Gustav.
 Feb. 24 - Delivers Republican response to Pres. Obama's address.  (Not well reviewed).
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B.S. degrees in biology and public policy from Brown University.
Dec. - Selected as a 1992 Rhodes Scholar.

M.Litt.in political science from University of Oxford.
Consultant at McKinsey and Company.
Appointed Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH). Oct. 18 - Marries Supriya Jolly.**
 Appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. Appointed President of the University of Louisiana System,
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Graduates from Baton Rouge High School.
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Born Piyush Jindal in Baton Rouge on June 10, 1971; son of immigrants from Punjab, India.







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*While at Brown University, Jindal helped start up College Republicans and served as its president, he did a summer internship with Congressman Jim McCrery (LA-4), and in his sophomore year he was baptized as a Catholic.
**The Jindals have three children: Selia Elizabeth, Shaan Robert, and Slade Ryan.  She established the Supriya Jindal Foundation for Louisiana's Children.

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