Virgil Lusk
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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Burgess, Joel. "Black History Month: Who was Asheville's first African American council member?". The Asheville Citizen Times.
- ^ "The Man Who Should Have a Monument: The Life and Memory of Virgil Lusk".
- ^ Chia, Connie (April 25, 2016). "Steven E. Nash: Who was Virgil Lusk?". UNC Press Blog.
- ^ "Mayor Virgil S. Lusk was 'Leader In Pioneer Municipal Projects' in Asheville". Asheville Citizen-Times. September 8, 1929. p. 9 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ North, John. "'Asheville Riot of 1868' lit WNC fuse to end Reconstruction, prof claims". Asheville Daily Planet.
- ^ McKinney, Gordon (1981). "The Klan in the Southern Mountains: The Lusk-Shotwell Controversy". Appalachian Journal. 8 (2): 89–104. JSTOR 40932374.
- ^ 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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- American Civil War prisoners of war held by the United States
- Confederate States Army soldiers
- Mayors of Asheville, North Carolina
- 19th-century mayors of places in North Carolina
- Republican Party members of the North Carolina House of Representatives
- 19th-century members of the North Carolina General Assembly