Thompson, Richard A.

Richard A. Thompson's professional education is as a civil engineer, and he has recently retired from a 45-year career in construction, including 12 years as the Senior Building Inspector for the City of St. Paul. He is a certified Minnesota Building Official and a registered professional engineer. His earliest ambition was to be a comic book artist, later a sculptor. At various times he has been a carpenter, a short-order cook, an apprentice surveyor, a folksinger and part-time maker of stringed instruments, a member of the U.S. Coast Guard, a general contractor, and a boat-builder.;

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