Ernie Konnyu
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 12th district |
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In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Ed Zschau |
| Succeeded by | Tom Campbell |
| Member of the California State Assembly from California's 22nd district | |
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In office January 1, 1980 – December 31, 1986 |
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| Preceded by | Richard D. Hayden |
| Succeeded by | Chuck Quackenbush |
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17 May 1937 Tamási, Hungary |
| Political party | Republican |
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University of Maryland, College Park Ohio State University |
Ernest Leslie Konnyu (born May 17, 1937) is a former Republican U.S. Representative from Silicon Valley, California, 12th congressional district, and a former California State Assembly Member from the 22nd district.
Ernõ "Ernie" Könnyű was born May 17, 1937, in Tamási, Hungary to poet, professor and cartographer Leslie Konnyu and his wife, Elizabeth, a bookkeeper and owner of a home secretarial school, and is the eldest of his two late siblings Gabriela (Helen) and Zoltan (Joseph). In 1949 the 12-year-old Konnyu, together with his family, immigrated to the United States from a post-World War II refugee camp in Ampflwang,Austria. He attended parochial and public schools in Jefferson City and St. Louis, Missouri. He attended University of Maryland, College Park and received his Bachelor of Science Degree. from Ohio State University in 1965. Konnyu served in the United States Air Force as a captain from 1959 to 1969 and as a major in the Air Force Reserve from 1970 to 1981. In 1959, he married Lillian Muenks of Loose Creek, Missouri.
Service Konnyu joined the U.S. Air Force in 1959 as an enlisted medic, served at the U.S. Air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, with a final rank of Staff Sergeant, and attended night school at the University of Maryland’s Wiesbaden campus completing two college years in four years. He applied and won in competition a coveted two year paid Air Force scholarship (Airman Education and Commissioning Program) to The Ohio State University where he majored in accounting..^3 He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1965. ^3.1 He was admitted to the Air Force Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Texas, where he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant. ^3 From 1965 to 1969 he served at Nellis AFB, Nevada, as a senior auditor with a final rank of captain. He was awarded four Air Force decorations including the National Defense Medal and six ribbons including the Air Force Sharpshooter ribbon. Through his extensive community service work, Captain Konnyu was elected president of the North Las Vegas Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1968. ^2 ^4 He spent 11 years in the U.S. Air Force Reserve ending with a rank of major until he received an honorable discharge retiring from the Air Force in 1997. ^3
Konnyu’s business career began in 1969 as Controller at Valley View Investments in North Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1970 he moved to Arcadia, California, where he was internal audit supervisor at Avon Products, Pasadena. Konnyu, a Certified Internal Auditor, served as corporate director of internal audit at National Semiconductor Corp. in Santa Clara, California, from 1974 to 1980. Konnyu continued his community service work with the Junior Chamber of Commerce first in Arcadia, then in San Jose, California. As a result of his extensive service to the community the Arcadia Jaycees recommended Ernie Konnyu for a lifetime Senatorship in Junior Chamber International which he received in 1973. ^5
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