[1] In 1976, he was the Republican candidate for West Virginia's 1st congressional district, running against incumbent Democrat Bob Mollohan.
[1] McCuskey served as West Virginia's Commissioner of Finance and Administration from 1985 to 1988, and later became a partner in the firm of Campbell Woods Bagley in Charleston.
McCuskey was appointed by Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood to fill a vacancy on the state supreme court caused by the retirement of Justice Thomas McHugh on January 12, 1998.
McCuskey ran for the remainder of the expired term, and during the course of the campaign refused support from a political action committee fund set up by direct marketing mogul Benjamin Suarez, who was feuding with West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw, the brother of McCuskey's opponent.
[5] On November 3, 1998, McCuskey was defeated by Warren McGraw in the election to fill the remainder of Justice McHugh's term, which expired on December 31, 2004.