Duncan Ferguson (political activist)

P. Duncan Ferguson ( born January 1, 1901 in Shanghai, † April 29, 1974 in Santa Monica ) was an American sculptor.

Ferguson was a son of the theologian and university founder John Calvin Ferguson ( 1866-1945 ). He started in the mid 1920s with the sculpture, in the 1930s he taught this at Louisiana State University. In the 1940s he joined the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party of the United States. In 1943 he created a bust of Leon Trotsky, the year 1944 he spent on behalf of the party in Mexico, in order to support Trotsky's widow NATALIA.

Ferguson died in 1974 after a long illness in California. His written heritage located in the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

• Sculptor (United States)
• University teachers (Louisiana )
• Member of the Socialist Workers Party (United States)
• Americans
• Born 1901
• Died in 1974
• Man