The Meteoric Rise of Bobby Jindal
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A former Rhodes scholar, Jindal has been variously described as a "policy wiz kid" and a "wunderkind." In 1996, at the age of 24, he was appointed head of the Louisiana state Department of Health and Hospitals. At 27, shortly after this photo was taken, he became president of the University of Louisiana System, one of the largest higher-education systems in the nation.