Fenner Ferguson

Fenner Ferguson (born April 25, 1814 in Nassau , Rensselaer County , New York , † October 11, 1859 in Bellevue , Nebraska ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1859 he represented the Nebraska Territory as a delegate in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Fenner Ferguson attended public schools in his home country and then studied law. After his admission as a lawyer in 1840, he began to practice his new profession in Albany . In 1846 he moved to Albion , Michigan . He also worked there as a lawyer.

Ferguson became a member of the Democratic Party . In Michigan, he was a temporary district attorney and became a member of the State House of Representatives . In 1854, Ferguson was appointed presiding judge of the Supreme Court of the Nebraska Territory by President Franklin Pierce . So that year he moved to Bellevue in the area. In his new role he was involved in the establishment of the legal districts and new courts and also worked on the drafting of the first laws.

In 1856 he was elected as his party's candidate for a delegate to the US House of Representatives in Washington . There he replaced Bird Beers Chapman on March 4, 1857 , who had contested his electoral defeat without success. Ferguson only remained a member of Congress for one term , in which, however, as a delegate, he had no voting rights. In the elections of 1858 he decided not to run again. Therefore, he left the Congress on March 3, 1859.

After his term in the House of Representatives ended, Ferguson returned to work as a lawyer. But he died only a few months later and was buried in Bellevue. Fenner Ferguson had been married to Helena Upjohn since 1841, with whom he had four sons. His wife died in 1888.

Web links

• Fenner Ferguson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Kurzbiographie (English)