Homer S. Ferguson
Homer Samuel Ferguson (
February 25,
1889 –
December 17,
1982) was a
United States Senator from
Michigan. He was born in the
Pittsburgh suburb of
Harrison City, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools and the
University of Pittsburgh. He graduated from the
University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor in 1913, was admitted to the
bar the same year and commenced practice in
Detroit, Michigan. He was judge of the
circuit court for
Wayne County, Michigan from 1929-1942 and also professor of law at
Detroit College of Law (now part of
Michigan State University) from 1929 to 1939.
Ferguson was elected as a
Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 and was reelected in 1948, serving from
January 3,
1943, to
January 3 1955. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1954. While in the Senate, he served as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the Eighty-third Congress. He served as
United States Ambassador to the
Philippines from 1955 to 1956 and was judge of the
United States Court of Military Appeals at
Washington, D.C. from 1956 to 1971. He served as senior judge on the United States Court of Military Appeals from 1971 to 1976, after which he moved back to Michigan and resided in
Grosse Pointe, Michigan until his death. He is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, in Detroit.
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Homer Ferguson Papers 1939-1976, collection maintained by
University of Michigan
