Bobby Jindal is an American politician who became the first Indian American elected governor of a U.S. state when he won Louisiana’s governorship in 2007. Before serving two terms as governor, he represented Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives, ending a more than forty-year absence of Indian Americans in Congress since Dalip Singh Saund. A leading figure in the Republican Party, Jindal launched a campaign for the 2016 presidential nomination. His career demonstrated the ability of Americans of Indian origin to win statewide office in one of the nation’s most politically distinctive regions.
