Thomas Rickard (1866–1911) was a mining engineer,[1] an early resident of Berkeley, California,[citation needed] and served as the last President of the Town Board of Trustees from 1903 to 1909,[2] before the new city charter went into effect, creating the office of Mayor.
[citation needed] Thomas A. Rickard was a prominent writer on the subject of mining,[4] who, in 1896, was appointed by the Governor to the position of State Geologist of Colorado.
[2] From 1901 until his death, he served as vice president of the San Francisco mining firm of Harron, Rickard and McCone.
[2] He also served as a trustee of the California Institute for the Deaf and Blind,[2] located in Berkeley.
[2] Thomas' brother Edgar Rickard[1] was the editor of a mining newspaper in London and a close acquaintance of Herbert Hoover.