Ferri won the Democratic primary election held on October 24,2007 to succeed Rep. Peter T. Ginaitt (D-Warwick),who had stepped down halfway through his eighth two-year term. Ferri won 57% of the vote in the three-way primary election,defeating party-endorsed candidate Edgar Ladouceur and Olin Thompson.[2] In the general election held on November 27,2007,he faced Republican Jonathan Wheeler and independent Carlo Pisaturo,receiving 53% of the vote to Wheeler's 33% and Pisaturo's 14%.[3] He was sworn in on December 19,2007. He ran for re-election in 2008 and 2010,prevailing on each occasion. In 2014,Ferri retired from the House of Representatives and ran for election to the office of Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor,but he did not win the Democratic nomination.[4]
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