Politics
- John Ferguson (New Brunswick politician) (1813–1888), merchant and Canadian senator from New Brunswick
- John Ferguson (Ontario politician) (1839–1896), physician and Canadian MP and senator from Ontario
- Sir John Ferguson (UK politician) (1870–1932), British Conservative MP for Twickenham 1929–1932
- John Ferguson (Upper Canada politician) (1756–1830), judge and politician in Upper Canada
- John Ferguson (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1911), UUP and Alliance Party politician
- John Ferguson (Australian politician) (1830–1906), Australian Senator and member of the Queensland Parliament
- John Ferguson (New York politician) (died 1832), Mayor of New York City March–April 1815
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The will to change begins in the body not in the mind
My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and each of my failures.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)