Gerry Connolly

**Gerald Edward Connolly** (30 ga Maris, 1950 - 21 ga Mayu, 2025) ɗan siyasa ne ɗan Amurka wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin wakilin Amurka na gundumar 11 ta majalisar dokoki ta Virginia daga 2009 har zuwa rasuwarsa a 2025. A matsayinsa na memba na Jam'iyyar Democrat, an fara zaɓensa a 2008 don maye gurbin tsohon shugaban jam'iyyar Republican Tom Davis, wanda bai nemi sake tsayawa takara ba, daga baya ya yi murabus jim kaɗan bayan zaɓen. Gundumar ta 11 tana cikin unguwannin Arewacin Virginia . Tana cikin gundumar Fairfax mai wadata, inda Connolly ya yi aiki a kwamitin kula da gundumar kafin zaɓensa zuwa Majalisa, kuma ya haɗa da dukkan birnin Fairfax .

A watan Afrilun 2025, Connolly ya sanar da cewa ba zai sake neman tsayawa takara a shekarar 2026 ba saboda matsalolin lafiya. Ya mutu a kan mulki a ranar 21 ga Mayu, 2025, bayan ya yi fama da cutar kansar makogwaro .

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Connolly a Boston a ranar 30 ga Maris, 1950, ɗan Mary Therese ( née O'Kane), ma'aikaciyar jinya, da kuma Edward R. Connolly, mai sayar da inshora .      Ya kammala karatunsa a Makarantar Sakandare ta Maryknoll Junior (wanda aka yi wa laƙabi da Venard) a Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, a shekarar 1968. A shekarar 1971, ya kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Maryknoll da ke Glen Ellyn, Illinois,  tare da digirin farko a fannin adabi, sannan ya kammala digirin Master of Public Administration daga Makarantar Harvard Kennedy a shekarar 1979. 

## Sana'a

### Kwamitin Majalisar Dattawan Amurka kan Harkokin Kasashen Waje
Connolly ya yi aiki daga 1979 zuwa 1989 tare da Kwamitin Hulɗa da Ƙasashen Waje na Majalisar Dattawan Amurka, inda ya jagoranci kwamitin kula da batutuwan tattalin arziki na ƙasa da ƙasa, kula da miyagun ƙwayoyi na ƙasa da ƙasa, da manufofin Majalisar Ɗinkin Duniya da Gabas ta Tsakiya, kuma ya buga rahotanni kan manufofin Amurka a El Salvador, Amurka ta Tsakiya, Isra'ila, da yankin Tekun Farisa . [1] Daga 1989 zuwa 1997, ya kasance Mataimakin Shugaban Ofishin SRI na Ƙasa da Ƙasa na Washington. Ya kuma kasance Daraktan Hulɗa da Al'umma na SAIC (Kimiyya Aikace-aikacen Ƙasa da Ƙasa) .

### Matsalolin ƙasashen waje
Connolly ya kaɗa ƙuri'a kan amincewa da ƙarin kayan agaji na soja guda uku ga Ukraine, Isra'ila, da Taiwan a watan Afrilun 2024, tare da yawancin 'yan Democrat.    Bayan da dukkan kudurori uku suka yi nasara a Majalisar, ya soki 'yan Republican na Majalisar Wakilai saboda jinkirin kaɗa ƙuri'a. 

## Yaƙin neman zaɓe na siyasa

### 2008
Connolly ya samu nasara da maki 24 a kan abokin hamayyarsa mafi kusanci, tsohuwar 'yar majalisa Leslie L. Byrne, a zaɓen fidda gwani na jam'iyyar Democrat na 2008. Daga nan ya kayar da ɗan takarar jam'iyyar Republican Keith Fimian da maki fiye da goma don samun kujerar da Tom Davis, ɗan jam'iyyar Republican, ya riƙe.  Ɗan takarar jam'iyyar Green mai zaman kanta Joseph P. Oddo ne.

Connolly ya fafata da 'yar Republican Suzanne Scholte, Green Joe Galdo, da kuma Marc Harrold mai ra'ayin mazan jiya a takararsa ta sake tsayawa takara, inda ya lashe da kashi 56.86% na kuri'un da aka kada. 

### 2020
Connolly ya fuskanci mai kalubalantarsa na farko, lauya Ahsan Nasar, wanda ya kayar da shi da kashi 85.64% na kuri'un.  A babban zaben, Connolly ya kayar da abokin hamayyarsa na jam'iyyar Republican Mike Van Meter da kashi 66.68% na kuri'un. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri

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