Anderson Drew Ferguson IV[1] (born November 15, 1966) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 3rd congressional district from 2017 to 2025. The district stretches from the southern suburbs of Atlanta to the northern suburbs of Columbus, including a sliver of Columbus itself.
Ferguson was a dentist with a family dental practice.[4] He served as an alderman for West Point, Georgia, and then as mayor from 2008 to 2016. He resigned in 2016 to focus on his race for the House of Representatives.
U.S. House of Representatives
Elections
2016
In 2016, Ferguson ran for the Georgia third district seat, being vacated by Republican incumbent Lynn Westmoreland. He placed in the top two in the May Republican primary and faced State Senator Mike Crane in the runoff. The two had finished within 100 votes of each other;[5] both had about 27% of the vote.[4]
In the runoff, Ferguson had the support of business-oriented Republicans, including Westmoreland.[6] The primary and its runoff were expensive and bitterly contested; Super PACs and other groups outside Georgia spent more than $2 million on the race.[7]
On July 26, Ferguson defeated Crane with 54% of the vote.[8] In the November general election, Ferguson defeated Democratic nominee Angela Pendley with 68% of the vote.[9]
2018
In the May 2018 Republican primary, Ferguson faced Philip Singleton of Sharpsburg, a former Army helicopter pilot;[10] Ferguson won with 74% of the vote.[11]
In November, Ferguson defeated Democratic nominee Chuck Enderlin with 66% of the vote.[12]
2024
He was not a candidate for reelection to the 119th Congress.
Tenure
Ferguson was sworn into office on January 3, 2017.
On May 19, 2021, Ferguson and the other seven Republican House leaders in the 117th Congress voted against establishing a national commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack. Thirty-five House Republicans and all 217 Democrats present voted to establish the commission.[14][15]
Running for election in 2016, Ferguson's main issues were securing the borders, destroying the Islamic State, strengthening the military, replacing the income tax with a flat tax, repealing Obamacare, and supporting a constitutional amendment for congressional term limits.[4] He signed on to the lawsuit seeking to overturn the result of the 2020 election, one of four Georgian representatives to do so.[19][20] The Supreme Court dismissed the suit on December 11, 2020.[21]
In 2021, Ferguson voted against H.R. 5, the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity.[31]
In response to a 2016 American Family Association survey, Ferguson indicated on a Likert scale question that he agrees with the statement "Governments should define marriage as between one man and one woman; no other definition of marriage should be legalized or supported with public funds."[32]
In February 2019, a representative from the American Federation of Government Employees sought an apology from Ferguson for a biography of Robert E. Lee that was on display in Ferguson's office. The AFGE representative reported that the book displayed a page that detailed Lee's pro-slavery beliefs. Ferguson's spokeswoman relayed an apology and said the book had been removed from display.[35][36]
Post-congressional career
In January 2025, Ferguson joined Alston and Bird, a prominent Atlanta-based law and lobbying firm, as a senior political adviser.[37]
Electoral history
U.S. House, Georgia District 3 Republican Primary, 2016[38]
