    Congressional Directory for the 106th Congress (1999-2000), February 2000.
    [Page 200]
    [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; one granddaughter, Lucy; 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

         http://www.house.gov/ballenger    cass.ballenger@mail.house.gov

    2182 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC        (202) 225-2576
     20515-3310............................................
      Chief of Staff.--Patrick M. Murphy.                      FAX: 225-0316
      Legislative Director.--Roberta Myers.
      Executive Assistant.--Caroline Brown.
    P.O. Box 1830, Hickory, NC 28603.......................   (704) 327-6100
      District Director.--Tommy Luckadoo.

    Counties: Alexander, Allegany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba,
            Iredell (part), Mitchell, Surry (part), Watauga, Wilkes, and
            Yadkin. Population (1990), 552,386.
    ZIP Codes: 27011, 27017 (part), 27018, 27020, 27055 (part), 28010, 28037
            (part), 28092 (part), 28115 (part), 28117 (part), 28123, 28166
            (part), 28168 (part), 28601-19, 28621 (part), 28622-24, 28625
            (part), 28626-31, 28633, 28634 (part), 28635-38, 28640-47,
            28649, 28650 (part), 28651-71, 28673, 28675-76, 28677 (part),
            28678-85, 28687-94, 28697-99, 28705, 28761 (part), 28765, 28777