Ken Blankenbush is a Republican member of the New York State Assembly representing District 117, a seat he has held since 2013. Born September 14, 1947, in Wilkes-Barre, he earned a bachelor's degree in history from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Before his legislative career, he served in the United States Air Force, including deployment to Vietnam, and later worked at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company before founding his own insurance and financial services business, BEL Associates, in Watertown.…