Thompson Benton Ferguson (March 17, 1857 – February 14, 1921) was the sixth governor of Oklahoma Territory.

His mother died in 1860, and his father enlisted in the Union Army at the beginning of the American Civil War.

[2] After finishing college, he was ordained as a Methodist minister and after a short time moved to Chautauqua County, Kansas.

[1] Shartel was the daughter of the local newspaper owner and when her father died in 1890, Ferguson took over the paper.

[2] Elva and Thompson had five children, but only two survived to adulthood: Walter Ferguson and Tom Jr.[3] In 1889, Ferguson joined the Oklahoma Land Run and staked a claim near Oklahoma City which he later sold and returned to Sedan, Kansas, where he purchased the Sedan Republican and edited it for two years.