Hall Stoner Lusk (September 21, 1883 – May 15, 1983) was an American jurist in the state of Oregon.
[2] In 1909, Lusk moved to the state of Oregon where he passed the bar in 1910 and entered private legal practice in Portland.
Judge Lusk, as Time magazine wrote, "Like almost everybody else, he knew, and explained to the jury in directing an acquittal, that a whale, which breathes air and suckles its young, is no fish.
[2] The next day Governor Mark Hatfield appointed Lusk as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard L. Neuberger and served from March 16, 1960, to November 8, 1960.
[2][7] He was not a candidate for election to a full term and returned to Oregon Supreme Court as a justice pro tempore in 1961, serving until 1968.
[2] He entered private practice in Portland, but had to work in a lumber yard to make ends meet.