Cass Ballenger

Thomas Cass Ballenger ( born December 6, 1926 in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina ) is a former American politician. Between 1986 and 2005 he represented the state of North Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cass Ballenger is a great-grandson of Lewis Cass (1782-1866), the many leading political offices held in the first half of the 19th century in the United States. Until 1944 he attended the Episcopal High School. During the Second World War he served in the years 1944 and 1945 in the Air Corps of the U.S. Navy. He then continued his education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill continued. In addition, he studied until 1948 at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

Politically, Ballenger joined the Republican Party. In the years 1974 to 1976 he was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina. From 1976 to 1986 he was a member of the State Senate. Following the resignation of Congressman Jim Broyhill, who joined the U.S. Senate, he was at the due election for the tenth seat of North Carolina as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1986. After nine elections he could remain until January 3, 2005 at the Congress. There he was at times a member of the education and labor committee.

1990 called Ballenger us a foundation of life, collected the funds for schools and hospitals in Central and South America. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. In 2004 he gave up another Congress candidate.