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3 unusual facts about Tom Butt


Tom Butt

He was also pivotal in lobbying Congress to establish the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park and sits on the board of the organization dedicated to its creation and expansion.

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Butt founded and is currently the president of the East Brother Light Station, Inc., a non-profit organization whose aim is to save and maintain the historic East Brother Island Lighthouse on East Brother Island, a Bay Area landmark on the Register of National Historic sites which he helped accomplish.

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He is a stronger supporter of the San Francisco Bay Trail and wrote a city resolution that passed 8-1 that had mayor Gayle McLaughlin speak to the State Lands Use Commission to encourage them to force Chevron Corporation to allow a bay trail access to build a route through Chevron Richmond Refinery's Richmond Long Wharf.



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