Thompson B. Ferguson
Thompson B. Ferguson was
born near Des Moines, Iowa, in 1857. His parents migrated to
Southern Kansas while he was a child. He was educated in the
public schools and at the Kansas State Normal School (Emporia).
He was engaged in educational work for a number of years.
When the Cheyenne and
Arapaho country was thrown open to settlement in 1892, he settled at
Watonga and established the Watonga Republican. In 1897 he was
appointed postmaster, and in 1901 was appointed Governor of Oklahoma.
Since his retirement from
that position he has been engaged in editing and publishing the
Watonga Republican. In 1907 he was the Republican nominee for
Congress in the second district.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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