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When you ask about his achievements, Gerald Lee Baliles is liable to give you a discourse on how he modernized the attorney general’s office or how-he got his first bill passed by picking off each member of a hostile committee with tailored arguments....
Baliles is using the same cool, dispassionate style in the general election campaign - indeed, it has marked his entire life - but his friends say the care and caution of the political man are just part of a complex package.... Easy Manner
He is a man whose reserved public exterior hides a sharp wit and an easy manner that conveys a personal interest in those he meets face to face. He is intense and hard driving, but his favorite recreation is the most laid back: fishing.
He is known for thoughtfulness among his friends, but in the words of one friend, he “does not have a lot of sympathy for work that is not done on time and is not done right" Growing Up
In the 1940s, when Baliles was growing up on a farm north of Stuart, Patrick County was about as isolated a place as you could find in Virginia. There was no redio station and the closest newspaper was in Martinsville, 30 miles east and a place that Baliles can remember visiting only on very special occasions. Stuart, the seat, was home for the only industry, a small textile factory. Most people made a living farming and lumbering.
Baliles’ grandparents, who raised him and his brother Larry from the time he was 6, were no exception. His grandfather had apple and peach orchards, raised timber and presided over a strict household in the Buffalo Ridge section of Patrick.
“We had no television in the house. My grandfather would not permit it,” Baliles says simply. “He read the newspaper.”
His parents’ marriage soon broke up, and his father brought
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