Lawson Andrew Scruggs (1857–1914) was a physician in North Carolina who was active in politics and civil rights.

[2][3] Lawson Andrew Scruggs met Lucie Johnson at Shaw University and they married on 22 February 1888.

They moved to Raleigh where his wife joined the Blount Street Baptist Church and various intellectual organisations.

Scruggs, Shaw classmates J. T. Williams and Manassa Pope, James H. Young, Samuel Vick, and Henry Cheatham were central in efforts to organize black Republican support for those who remained.

[7] Scruggs was politically sought stability and interracial harmony, a position which occasionally put him at odds with state Republican leader, Daniel Lindsay Russell.