Education
Yale University.
Yale University.
In 1851, he was Senate President Pro Tempore. He graduated from Yale College in 1823, and thereafter opened a preparatory school in Stamford, where he taught until 1833. He was admitted to the bar in 1829, and began practicing law in Fairfield County in 1833.
In the election of 1849, Ferris was elected a presidential elector for the Whig Party.
He cast his vote for Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore for President and Vice President of the United States.