    Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), June 1997.
    [Page 221]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

        CASS BALLENGER, Republican, of Hickory, NC; born in Hickory,
    December 6, 1926; graduated, Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA,
    1944; attended University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1944-45; B.A.,
    Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 1948; served in U.S. Naval Air Corps,
    aviation cadet, 1944-45; founder and president, Plastic Packaging, Inc.;
    North Carolina House of Representatives, 1974-76; North Carolina Senate,
    1976-86; member: Catawba County Board of Commissioners, 1966-74
    (chairman, 1970-74); Advisory Budget Commission, White House Advisory
    Committee, Community Ridge Day Care Center, Hickory Rotary Club, Hickory
    United Fund, Lenoir-Rhyne College Board of Development, Salvation Army
    Board of Directors, Florence Crittenton Home Board of Directors, Greater
    Hickory Chamber of Commerce (director); sustaining member, North
    Carolina School of the Arts; patron: North Carolina Symphony, North
    Carolina Arts Society; married the former Donna Davis, 1952; three
    children: Lucinda Ballenger-Brinkley, Melissa Ballenger Jordan, and
    Dorothy Davis Ballenger Weaver; two grandsons: Matthew Jordan and
    William Eriksen Jordan; deputy whip, 104th Congress; member,
    International Relations and Economic and Educational Opportunities
    committees; elected to the 99th Congress, November 4, 1986, to complete
    the unexpired term of James Broyhill; reelected to each succeeding
    Congress.

                      Office Listings
                              cass@mailhr.house.gov

    2238 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
     20515-3310............................................         225-2576
      Administrative Assistant.--Patrick M. Murphy.            FAX: 225-0316
      Legislative Director.--Leslie Gallagher.
      Executive Assistant.--Mary McLartey.
    P.O. Box 1830, Hickory, NC 28603.......................   (704) 327-6100
      District Director.--Tommy Luckadoo.
    P.O. Box 1881, Clemmons, NC 27012......................   (919) 766-9455
      District Representative.--Marsha Sucharski.

    Counties: Alexander, Avery, Buncombe (part), Burke (part), Caldwell
            (part), Catawba, Davie (part), Forsyth (part), Henderson (part),
            Iredell (part), Lincoln, McDowell (part), Mitchell, Polk (part),
            Rutherford (part), Wilkes (part), and Yadkin. Population (1990),
            552,386.
    ZIP Codes: 27006, 27011-12, 27018, 27020, 27023, 27028 (part), 27040,
            27045 (part), 27050 (part), 27055, 27103 (part), 27104 (part),
            27105 (part), 27106 (part), 27127 (part), 28006 (part), 28010,
            28018, 28021 (part), 28033, 28037, 28080, 28092-93, 28115
            (part), 28123, 28139 (part), 28164 (part), 28166 (part), 28167
            (part), 28168, 28601-04, 28605 (part), 28609-14, 28616, 28621
            (part), 28622, 28624, 28630, 28634-38, 28641-42, 28645 (part),
            28646-53, 28654 (part), 28657-58, 28659 (part), 28660-62, 28664-
            67, 28669-71, 28673, 28677 (part), 28678, 28681-83, 28685,
            28688-90, 28696, 28697 (part), 28699, 28704 (part), 28705, 28711
            (part), 28720, 28730, 28732, 28742 (part), 28746, 28752 (part),
            28756 (part), 28760, 28765, 28777, 28792 (part), 28803 (part),
            28804 (part)