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(Redirected from Virgil S. Lusk) American politician Not to be confused with Virgil Lusk Hill Jr..

Virgil Stuart Lusk was a district attorney and political leader in North Carolina. He served as mayor of Asheville, North Carolina. He fought in the Confederate Army as a cavalry officer and was a prisoner of war during the American Civil War. He became a Republican in 1865.

As mayor he was involved in water projects.

In 1870 he was attacked by a Ku Klux Klan leader.

He served in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1895 and 1897. He and fellow Republican Charles Alston Cook were caricatured in the North Carolinian a Democratic Party paper in Raleigh.

References

  1. ^ Burgess, Joel. "Black History Month: Who was Asheville's first African American council member?". The Asheville Citizen Times.
  2. "The Man Who Should Have a Monument: The Life and Memory of Virgil Lusk".
  3. Chia, Connie (April 25, 2016). "Steven E. Nash: Who was Virgil Lusk?". UNC Press Blog.
  4. "Mayor Virgil S. Lusk was "Leader In Pioneer Municipal Projects" in Asheville". Asheville Citizen-Times. September 8, 1929. p. 9 – via newspapers.com.
  5. North, John. "'Asheville Riot of 1868' lit WNC fuse to end Reconstruction, prof claims". Asheville Daily Planet.
  6. McKINNEY, GORDON (1981). "The Klan in the Southern Mountains: The Lusk-Shotwell Controversy". Appalachian Journal. 8 (2): 89–104. JSTOR 40932374 – via JSTOR.
  7. Trelease, Allen W. (1980). "The Fusion Legislatures of 1895 and 1897: A Roll-Call Analysis of the North Carolina House of Representatives". The North Carolina Historical Review. 57 (3): 303. ISSN 0029-2494. JSTOR 23535481.

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