Early Political Career
First elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1905 election, Ferguson served as Minister of Lands, Forest and Mines in the government of William Hearst from 1914 to 1919. Ferguson became leader of the Conservative Party upon the defeat of the Hearst government that year.
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