Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Piyush \"Bobby\" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician, served as the 55th Governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016, a former US Congressman, and former vice chairman of the Republican Governors Association.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. In 2001, Jindal was appointed as the principal adviser to Tommy Thompson, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services by the 43rd President, George W. Bush.He first ran for governor in 2003 and won a plurality in the nonpartisan blanket primary but lost in the runoff election to the Democratic candidate, 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; in doing so, he became the first Indian American governor in the United States. He was re-elected in a landslide in 2011.On June 24, 2015, Jindal announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. On November 17, 2015, Jindal suspended his presidential campaign. On February 4, 2016 Jindal announced that he would support Marco Rubio's campaign for the Republican nomination for president."@en }
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- Bobby_Jindal abstract "Piyush \"Bobby\" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician, served as the 55th Governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016, a former US Congressman, and former vice chairman of the Republican Governors Association.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. In 2001, Jindal was appointed as the principal adviser to Tommy Thompson, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services by the 43rd President, George W. Bush.He first ran for governor in 2003 and won a plurality in the nonpartisan blanket primary but lost in the runoff election to the Democratic candidate, 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; in doing so, he became the first Indian American governor in the United States. He was re-elected in a landslide in 2011.On June 24, 2015, Jindal announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. On November 17, 2015, Jindal suspended his presidential campaign. On February 4, 2016 Jindal announced that he would support Marco Rubio's campaign for the Republican nomination for president.".