Bobby Jindal, Governor

In many ways Bobby Jindal is the embodiment of the American Dream. His parents immigrated to Baton Rouge from India just a few months before he was born, and Jindal, whose father was the only one of nine siblings to go to high school, became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. At 24, he was serving as Louisiana's Health Secretary. By the time he first ran for Governor, in 2003, he had also served as President of the State University System and as an Assistant health Secretary in the Bush administration. Bobby Jindal is the first Indian-American elected to the office of Governor in the United States.