Robert Hugh Rusk
(1868–1944)
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1868
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Cherokee County, Georgia
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1944
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Robert Hugh Rusk was father of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He studied at Davidson College and Louisville Theological Seminary, worked as a minister and farmer, and later worked for the postal service in Atlanta. Dean Rusk recalled his father in an oral history.
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Robert Hugh Rusk attended Davidson College and Louisville Theological Seminary while preparing for the Presbyterian ministry. A lifelong throat problem limited his ability to preach, according to his son Dean Rusk. He subsequently taught school, farmed a 40-acre plot in Cherokee County, Georgia, and worked for the post office after the family moved to Atlanta.
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