Raj Mukherjee, 29, has won the State Assembly polls in New Jersey becoming one of the youngest to be elected to the house. An Indian American; Mukherjee founded an internet consulting and software development company while in middle school, which he later sold to a larger technology company. After the September 11 attacks, he joined the US Marines at the age of 17, and two years later co-founded a public affairs firm that soon grew into the state's third largest.