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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]
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