John F. McCuskey

John F. McCuskey (born November 7, 1947) is West Virginia lawyer and politician who served for brief periods in the West Virginia State Legislature and on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Early life, education, and political career Born and raised in Clarksburg, West Virginia, McCuskey received a B.A. in mathematics from West Virginia Wesleyan College, and a B.S.E.E. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1972, while he was still a student at the West Virginia University College of Law, sitting out one year of law school to pursue the office. He received his J.D. degree from WVU in 1973. As a legislator, McCuskey refused to accept the daily allowance offered to legislators during a special session of the legislature, on the basis that the work of the legislature should have been completed during its regular session. McCuskey remained in the legislature for four years, during which time he served on committees addressing the state judiciary, agriculture and natural resources, constitutional revision, and state parks, and sponsored legislation to reconfigure the state's justice of the peace system. In 1976, he was the Republican candidate for West Virginia's 1st congressional district, running against incumbent Democrat Bob Mollohan.