Richard Roy Eardley (December 23, 1928[1] – June 30, 2012)[2] served three terms as mayor of Boise, Idaho, from 1974 to 1986.
Eardley served as mayor for a total of 12 years, longer than anyone else in Boise history until Dave Bieter won a fourth consecutive four-year term in 2015.
In city history, only Eardley and Bieter have won three consecutive four-year terms as mayor.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Eardley moved with his family to Baker, Oregon as a youth and graduated from Baker High School in 1947.
He and his wife Pat were married in 1950,[3] and they moved to Boise five years later, where he worked for the Idaho Statesman newspaper (1955–58) and KBOI-TV and radio (1958–74) in news and sports.