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Ballenger

Ballenger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • A. F. Ballenger (1861–1921), Seventh-day Adventist Minister who started the "Receive Ye the Holy Ghost" movement
  • Cass Ballenger (1926–2015), American politician
  • Frank Ballenger, American football coach in the United States
  • Pelham Ballenger (1894–1948), Major League Baseball third baseman, for at least a week, with the Washington Senators in 1928
  • Roger Ballenger, Oklahoma Senator from District 8, which includes McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee and Tulsa counties, since 2006

Usage examples of "ballenger".

Watson did not care enough even to present his case on the appeal, and Ballenger, out of a sense of fairness, had continued the proceedings on his own initiative.

Watson considered for the merest instant whether or not Ballenger might be an unusually aggressive example of that type.

But any suspicion that Ballenger was contemplating a lawsuit evaporated, and Watson saw that he was dealing, instead, with a maniac.

Watson knew, was to stand from his chair, ease the man quietly from the office, lock the door, and hope Ballenger would not come back.

The idea, half formed, that it would be possible to reason Ballenger into seeking medical attention, vanished.

In the absence of criminal conduct, only a relative could have Ballenger committed.

But if the insanity were temporary, or if Ballenger could recover sufficiently to conceal it from the judge, then Watson himself might be in an unfortunate and vulnerable legal position: a suit for false arrest, or worse.

If Ballenger stayed outside, an anonymous call to the police might then result in his detention for questioning and lead to the court sending him to the sanctuary the state provided for such disturbed people.

Calhoun Ballenger won the Democratic nomination away from Senator Merrill in a huge upset, and the mayor lost his job in a special election won by former mayor Eddie Cane.

The younger Ballenger brother had been a rounder and a half, and he was married?

He and the Ballenger brothers have gone several rounds over cattle prods and feed additives.

They went inside, where they met Evan and his wife, Anna, who was obviously and joyfully pregnant with their first child, and the Ballenger brothers, Calhoun and Justin, with their wives Abby and Shelby, all headed toward the front door together.

Tre-maynes going out the front door, along with both Ballenger brothers and their wives.

The Ballenger brothers with their happy marriages came instantly to mind.

Justin Ballenger about some stock he and Calhoun are feeding out for me.