Homer S. Ferguson
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Homer Samuel Ferguson (February 25, 1889 – December 17, 1982) was a U.S. Senator from Michigan. He was born in Harrison City, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1913. He 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 1929-1939. He 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 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 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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- Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000081)