Virgil Lusk Explained

Virgil Stuart Lusk was a district attorney and political leader in North Carolina.^[1] 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.^{[2] [3]}

As mayor he was involved in water projects.^[4]

In 1870 he was attacked by a Ku Klux Klan leader.^{[1] [5] [6]}

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.^[7]

External links

• Findagrave entry

Notes and References

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