It’s time to get over it. It’s time for the end of race in America.
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My background is in health care.
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| Birth: | 10th June, 1971 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Politician |
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Bobby Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is an American politician who is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and the Vice Chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Prior to entering politics, Jindal studied for a Bachelor of Science in biology and public policy at Brown University from 1988 to 1991 and then a Master of Letters in political science from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1996, Governor Murphy Foster appointed Jindal Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, and in 1999 he was appointed President of the University of Louisiana System. He first ran for governor in 2003 and won a plurality in the nonpartisan blanket primary but lost in the general election to Democrat Kathleen Blanco. He then won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 2004 elections. The second Indian American in Congress, he was re-elected in 2006. He ran for Governor again in 2007 and secured an outright majority in the first round of balloting. He was re-elected in a landslide in 2011.
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