Judge John Howard Ferguson

ID: 6445 ~ Source: Courtesy of The Times-Picayune.
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Judge John Ferguson oversaw the Plessy case in the local New Orleans court. His decision ruled that intrastate travel fell under the jurisdiction of the state of Louisiana and upheld the Separate Car Act of 1890.

This file appears in: Louis A. Martinet and Albion Tourgée