August 4, 2009

Howard County native John Ferguson, a teacher, writer, and ordained Baptist minister, served as the director of the Arkansas History Commission and State Archives for forty-five years before his retirement in 2005. Ferguson is shown here in 1976 signing a contract for the construction of an American bicentennial memorial on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol.

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