Jim Trimingham was Mayor of the City of Pleasanton, California

Pleasanton, California

Pleasanton is a city in Alameda County, California, incorporated in 1894. It is a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area located about east of Oakland, and west of Livermore. The population was 70,285 at the 2010 census. In 2005 and 2007, Pleasanton was ranked the wealthiest middle-sized city in...

 from 1952 to 1955.

Trimingham ran the first fleet of school buses for the Amador Valley Joint Union High School District from 1932 to 1946.

Trimingham was a member of the Stanford

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 student group Immortal 21 who retrieved the symbolic Stanford Axe from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

in 1930. This was in response to Berkeley students stealing the Stanford Axe in 1899. Don Kropp founded the Immortal 21 and "hatched an elaborate plan [to steal the axe] that proved winning". Students from the Immortal 21 blinded the custodian of the axe while it was in transit from a bank vault to an armored car. Trimingham drove the Stanford Axe back at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour (144.8 km/h) on circuitous back roads to return the trophy back to Stanford University.