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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.

References

• State of Montana profile
• National Governors Association biography

v t e Governors of Montana
Territorial (1864–1889)	Edgerton Meagher G. Smith Ashley Potts Crosby Carpenter Hauser Leslie White
State (since 1889)	Toole Rickards R. Smith Toole Norris Stewart Dixon Erickson Cooney Holt Ayers Ford Bonner Aronson Nutter Babcock Anderson Judge Schwinden Stephens Racicot Martz Schweitzer Bullock Gianforte

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