| 词条 | John Goff Ballentine |
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| name = John Goff Ballentine | image = John Goff Ballantine (Tennessee Congressman).jpg | state = Tennessee | district = 7th | term_start = March 4, 1883 | term_end = March 3, 1887 | preceded = Washington C. Whitthorne | succeeded = Washington Whitthorne | birth_date = {{birth-date|May 20, 1825}} | death_date = {{death-date and age|November 23, 1915|May 20, 1825}} | birth_place = Pulaski, Tennessee | death_place = Pulaski, Tennessee | citizenship = {{US}} | spouse = Mary Elizabeth Laird Ballentine |children = Sallie Leverette Ballentine John Goff Ballentine Adelaide Ballentine Margaret Palmer Ballentine | profession = Attorney planter | party = Democrat | alma_mater = University of Nashville Harvard University | residence = |nickname = |allegiance = {{flagicon|Confederate States of America}} Confederate States of America |branch = Confederate States Army |serviceyears = 1861–1865 |rank = Colonel |unit = 7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment |commands = {{nowrap|2nd Mississippi Partisan Rangers}} |battles = American Civil War |awards = |}} John Goff Ballentine (May 20, 1825 – November 23, 1915) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 7th congressional district and a colonel in the Confederate army. BiographyBallentine was born on May 20, 1825 in Pulaski, Tennessee in Giles County son of Andrew Mitchell and Mary Tuttle Goff Ballentine. He graduated from Wurtemberg Academy in 1841, from the University of Nashville in 1845, and from the law department of Harvard University in 1848. He was a member of the faculty of Livingston Law School in New York. He commenced the practice of law in Pulaski.[1] CareerBallentine moved to Panola County, Mississippi about 1854, continued the practice of law, and engaged in the extensive family agricultural pursuits. There he met and married Miss Mary E. Laird, daughter of Dr. Henry Laird of Belmont. The couple had four children.[2] He settled in Memphis, Tennessee in 1860. He served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war, he returned to Pulaski, Tennessee. Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, Ballentine served from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1887.[3] He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886 and retired from active pursuits. DeathBallentine died in Pulaski, Tennessee on November 23, 1915 (age 90 years, 187 days). He is interred at the New Pulaski Cemetery.[4] References1. ^{{cite web|title=John Goff Ballentine|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000105|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=18 April 2013}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=John Goff Ballentine|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hallstree&id=I1201|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=18 April 2013}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=John Goff Ballentine|url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/john_ballentine/401106|publisher=Govtrack US Congress|accessdate=18 April 2013}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=John Goff Ballentine|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=18 April 2013}} External links{{CongBio|B000105}}
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