Jack Frederick Richardson (23 September 1921 – 3 June 2011) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the

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for 6 months in 1952-3 and a member of the Labor Party. Richardson was born in

Ashfield, New South Wales Ashfield is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Ashfield is about eight kilometres west of the Sydney central business district. Ashfield's population is highly multicultural with the majority of the area's d ...

, the son of a railway employee. He was educated at the Law School of the

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and admitted as a solicitor in 1952. During the Second World War, Richardson served with the

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in an anti-aircraft battery between 1941 and 1945. Richardson was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as the Labor member for Ashfield at the 1952

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caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal member

Athol Richardson Athol Railton Richardson (15 May 1897 – 22 May 1982) was an Australian politician and judge. Richardson represented the Electoral district of Ashfield for the United Australia Party and the Liberal Party from 11 May 1935 until 5 February 1952 ...

who had accepted a position as a judge of the

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. He lost the seat at the state election held in

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. He did not hold ministerial, parliamentary or party office and retired from public life. He was a long serving partner in the law firm Heaney Richardson and Heaney, specialising in Family Law, until his retirement. He married Roma Bezant Conlon in 1956 and she died in 1981. He had an only daughter Ann Frances born in 1958. In 1982 he married Diana, Baroness von Kohorn zu Kornegg. She was the granddaughter of former premier John Storey.

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