Background
Ferster grew up in Newark and Rahway.
Ferster grew up in Newark and Rahway.
He graduated City College of New York and New Jersey Law School.
He served in the United States. Air Force during World War I from 1917 to 1919. In 1937, he was elected to the New Jersey State Assembly, representing Essex County. Among the incumbent Democrats he defeated in that election was Leo P. Carlin, who would go on to serve as Mayor of Newark.
He was re-elected in 1938, 1939, 1940, and 1941.
Among the Democrats he defeated in 1940 were Peter West. Rodino, who would go on to serve 40 years as a Congressman, and John Jay Francis, who would serve fourteen years as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. During his nearly four years as an Assemblyman, Ferster served as Chairman of the Assembly Labor Committee.
Ferster led a protest of Nazi persecution of minorities in Orange, New Jersey on February 25, 1939. Governor Charles Edison appointed him to serve as a Commissioner of the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission in 1941.
He resigned from the State Assembly in July 1941, following his confirmation by the New Jersey State Senate.
In 1951, Ferster joined the Administration of Governor Alfred Driscoll as the Deputy Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and as Director of the Division of Compensation. Governor Robert B. Meyner appointed Ferster to serve as a Judge of the New Jersey Workers Compensation Court. New Jersey General Assembly (1940)
12 Seats Elected At-Large from Essex County.
He was a member of the 612th Aeronautical Squadron.