Early Life
Ferguson was born in the inner Sydney suburb of Zetland and was educated at two Sydney Catholic schools: Granville Convent and Marist Brothers College, Parramatta. After leaving school he was variously a farmhand, textile worker, builder's labourer and bricklayer and was an organiser for the Building Workers Industrial Union. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force.
Following his demobilisation, he became active in municipal, and then state, politics. He was an alderman on Parramatta Council from 1954 to 1959, and Deputy Mayor in 1959. He married Mary Ellen Bett and they had three sons (Laurie Ferguson, Martin Ferguson and Andrew Ferguson) and two daughters.
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