Fenner Ferguson

Fenner Ferguson ( born April 25, 1814 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Fenner Ferguson attended the common schools and then studied law. After his made ​​in 1840 admitted to the bar in Albany, he began his new career exercise. In 1846 he moved to Albion, Michigan. There he worked as a lawyer.

Ferguson was a member of the Democratic Party. In Michigan, he was temporarily District Attorney and was a member of the State House of Representatives. In 1854, Ferguson was appointed by President Franklin Pierce to the presiding judge of the Supreme Court in the Nebraska Territory. Therefore, he moved this year to Bellevue in this area. In his new role, he was involved in the establishment of the legal constituencies and new dishes and also worked in the drafting of the first laws with.

In 1856 he was elected as a candidate of his party as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took over from the March 4, 1857 Bird Beers Chapman, who had challenged his election defeat unsuccessful. Ferguson only stayed for one parliamentary term member of Congress, in which he, however, had as a delegate to vote. In the 1858 elections, he gave up another candidacy. Therefore, he resigned from the Congress on March 3, 1859.

After the end of his term in the House Ferguson again worked as a lawyer. He died a few months later and was buried in Bellevue. Fenner Ferguson was married since 1841 with Helena Upjohn, with whom he had four sons. His wife died in 1888.