Person

Alexander Lusk (Garrard County politician)

b. 1830?

Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Farmer in Garrard County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Garrard County from 1861 to 1863.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 29. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 11. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 288.

Citation

Lusk, Alexander. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213455 (November 12, 2026).

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