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Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson is a Scottish former football manager and player,best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time and has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football. Ferguson is often credited for valuing youth during his time with Manchester United,particularly in the 1990s with the "Class of '92",who contributed to making the club one of the richest and most successful in the world.
Ferguson is a city in St. Louis County,Missouri,United States. It is part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census,the population was 18,527,and predominantly black.
Plessy v. Ferguson,163 U.S. 537 (1896),was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality,a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". The decision legitimized the many state laws re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877. Such legally enforced segregation in the south lasted into the 1960s.
Robert William Barker was an American media personality and animal rights advocate. He hosted CBS's The Price Is Right,the longest-running game show in North American television history,from 1972 to 2007. He also hosted Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975.
Niall Campbell FergusonFRSE is a Scottish–American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously,he was a professor at Harvard University,the London School of Economics,New York University,a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities,and a senior research fellow at Jesus College,Oxford.
Homer Samuel Ferguson was an American attorney,professor,judge,United States senator from Michigan,Ambassador to the Philippines,and later a judge on the United States Court of Military Appeals.
Duncan Cowan Ferguson is a Scottish football coach and former player who is the manager of Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
James Edward Ferguson Jr.,known as Pa Ferguson,was an American Democratic politician and the 26th governor of Texas,in office from 1915 to 1917. He was indicted and impeached during his second term,forced to resign and barred from holding further Texas office.
Ferguson plc is a British multinational plumbing and heating products distributor with its head office in Wokingham,England. Its brands include Ferguson Enterprises.
Craig Ferguson is a Scottish-American comedian,actor,writer,and television host. He is best known for hosting the CBS late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014),for which he won a Peabody Award for his interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2009. He also hosted the syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game (2014–2017),for which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards,and Join or Die with Craig Ferguson (2016) on History. In 2017,he released a six-episode web show with his wife,Megan Wallace Cunningham,titled Couple Thinkers.
William Henry Hunt was the 29th United States Secretary of the Navy,Minister to the Russian Empire and a judge of the Court of Claims.
John A. Ferguson Senior High School is a certified magnet and academy high school located at 15900 SW 56th Street in Kendall West,Florida,United States. This Miami-Dade County public school mainly serves the outer portion of Kendall West,a suburb of Miami. The school's principal was Rafael Villalobos from 2003 to 2021,and Wendy Barnett since 2021.
Oath Keepers is an American far-right anti-government militia whose leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the government of the United States,including the transfer of presidential power as prescribed by the United States constitution. It was incorporated in 2009 by founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes,a lawyer and former paratrooper. In 2023,Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack,and another Oath Keepers leader,Kelly Meggs,was sentenced to 12 years for the same crime. Three other members have pleaded guilty to this crime,and four other members have been convicted of it.
Thomas Crooks Ferguson was a United States Ambassador to Brunei and a former US government official. He served as deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The Ferguson unrest was a series of protests and riots which began in Ferguson,Missouri on August 10,2014,the day after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by FPD officer Darren Wilson. The unrest sparked a vigorous debate in the United States about the relationship between law enforcement officers and Black Americans,the militarization of police,and the use-of-force law in Missouri and nationwide. Continuing activism expanded the issues by including modern-day debtors prisons,for-profit policing,and school segregation.
Anderson Drew Ferguson IV is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district. The district stretches from the southern suburbs of Atlanta to the northern suburbs of Columbus,including a sliver of Columbus itself.
John Campbell "Cam" Barker is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Joseph T. Ferguson was an American politician and perennial candidate from Ohio who participated in the Democratic Party. He served as Auditor of State for 18 years and as Treasurer of State of Ohio for 4 years. His nickname was Jumpin' Joe. Both Ferguson and his son,Thomas E. Ferguson,served as Auditor of State of Ohio. From 1937 to 1995,the Ferguson dynasty held the position for 40 of the 58 years.
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- ↑ "Thomas B. Ferguson, 1861". The Citadel Alumni Association. Retrieved June 12, 2021.