Graduated from Brown University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Turned
down admissions to medical and law schools at Harvard and Yale.
Republican Congressman representing the 1st District of Louisiana; term of service: 3 January 2005 - 14 January 2008. Resigned because he was elected governor of Louisiana.
Republican governor of Louisiana, 2008 - January 11, 2016.
Son of Indian immigrants. Only the second Indian-American to serve in Congress.
Won the gubernatorial race and will begin his term as governor of Louisiana in January 2008. (October 2007)
Chose to go by the name "Bobby" because he identified with the character Bobby on The Brady Bunch.