Virgil Stuart Lusk was a district attorney and political leader in North Carolina.
[1] He served as mayor of Asheville, North Carolina.
[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.