Achievements:
- The government in 1943 had two Aboriginal representatives elected to the board. Against many candidates Ferguson won easily
- Ferguson was vice-president of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Aborigines' League, a national body with Onus as president
- On 27 June 1937 he launched the Aborigines' Progressive Association at Dubbo
- on Australia Day, 1938. That year Patten and Ferguson wrote the pamphlet, Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights!, and petitioned the prime minister Joseph Lyons, for a national Aboriginal policy.
Turning points:
- On 18 February 1911 at Narrandera Presbyterian Church he married Margaret Mathieson Gowans,
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