Jack Richardson (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian Labor Party politician
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Place of Birth: Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
About Jack Richardson (politician)
- Jack Frederick Richardson (23 September 1921 – 3 June 2011) was an Australian politician.
- He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 6 months in 1952-3 and a member of the Labor Party. Richardson was born in Ashfield, New South Wales, the son of a railway employee.
- He was educated at the Law School of the University of Sydney and admitted as a solicitor in 1952.
- During the Second World War, Richardson served with the Royal Australian Air Force 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 by-election caused by the resignation of the sitting Liberal member Athol Richardson who had accepted a position as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
- He lost the seat at the state election held in 1953.
- He did not hold ministerial, parliamentary or party office and retired from public life.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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