Pakkiri Rajagopal is a Republican from

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who was a presidential elector in 2000. Rajagopal was born in Pollal not far from

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. He graduated from

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and then immigrated to the

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where he earned a master's degree in criminal justice from the

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. In 1980 Rajagopal became a deputy sheriff of Hamilton County. He later became involved with Probation and in 2004 was serving as director of the Probation Department in Hamilton County. Besides being an elector in 2000 and an alternate delegate to the 2004 Republican Convention, Rajagopal was president of the Hamilton County Republican Party for a time.

Sources

''News India Times'' article on Rajagopal
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