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John Ezra Rickards (born July 23, 1848, Delaware City, Delaware; died December 26, 1927, Berkeley, California) was a Montana legislator and politician.
Rickards was a businessman in Butte, Montana. He was a member of the territorial legislature from 1888-89, and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1889. He was Montana's first Lieutenant Governor (1889-93), and was elected governor in 1892, serving one term from 1893-97.
He is credited for overseeing the creation of the state legal code and the state board of education.
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