- 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.
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