{{Short description|American government official (born 1950)}} thumb|right|200px|Thomas A. Ferguson '''Thomas A. Ferguson''' (born 1950) is an American government official who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1998 to 2005.
Ferguson was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1950.<ref name="moneyfactory">[http://www.moneyfactory.gov/directorsferguson.html Profile from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830142811/http://www.moneyfactory.gov/directorsferguson.html |date=2011-08-30 }}</ref> He was educated at Lafayette College, receiving a B.A. in Economics.<ref name="moneyfactory" /> He later completed an M.P.A. from the University of Southern California.<ref name="moneyfactory" />
Ferguson joined the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in 1974 as a quality assurance specialist.<ref name="moneyfactory" /> In 1988, he became head of the Office of Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence.<ref name="moneyfactory" /> He was later Deputy Assistant Director of Operations and Assistant Director of Research and Technology, in which capacity he chaired the New Currency Design Task Force.<ref name="moneyfactory" />
In 1998, Ferguson became Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.<ref name="moneyfactory" /> He held this office until 2005.<ref name="moneyfactory" />
Since retiring from government service, Ferguson has run a consulting business based out of Howard County, Maryland.<ref>[http://www.currencyaffairs.org/public/bio_Ferguson.html Profile from the International Association of Currency Affairs] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321202712/http://www.currencyaffairs.org/public/bio_Ferguson.html |date=2012-03-21 }}</ref>
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