Governor of Montana from 1893-97. While continuing to build Montana's infrastructure, he is credited for overseeing the creation of the state legal code and the state board of education, and an anti-gambling bill was sanctioned during his tenure. After leaving office, Rickards moved to Berkeley, California and resumed his business career. Given an appointment to the Census Bureau in San Francisco, he was in that post for eighteen years. Death Rickards died of angina pectoris and chronic myocarditis at his Berkeley, Alameda County, California home on 26 December 1927. His death certificate notes that he was retired from a special appointment to the U.S. Agricultural Secretary. His cremains are interred at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California. References External links Montana Capitol State of Montana profile National Governors Association biography The Political Graveyard The Encyclopedia of Montana 1848 births 1927 deaths People from Delaware City, Delaware Members of the Montana Territorial Legislature 19th-century American politicians Lieutenant Governors of Montana Republican Party governors of Montana Methodists from Montana