From 'Bobby' to Governor Jindal.

PositionELECTIONS - Bobby Jindal - Brief article

Louisiana's newly elected Governor abandoned his given name, Piyush, when he was 4. He wanted to be called "Bobby," after one of the Kids on the The Brady Bunch, and the name stuck. Now 36, Bobby Jindal, a Republican, is the nation's first Indian-American Governor. Jindal is a native of Baton Rouge. His parents emigrated from India so his mother could earn a graduate degree in nuclear physics at Louisiana State. Jindal graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island and was...

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