Frank K. Richardson

Frank K. Richardson
Personal details
Born	13 February 1914 St. Helena, California
Died	5 October 1999 Sacramento, California
Nativity	United States
Religion	Protestant
Known for	Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of, California
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	01058364

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Frank Kellogg Richardson (February 13, 1914 – October 5, 1999) was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.

Biography

Upon returning to California, Richardson resumed the private practice of law but moved to Sacramento, where he also taught at the McGeorge School of Law from 1946 to 1952. Upon leaving the court, he served as a distinguished visiting professor of law at Pepperdine University School of Law in the spring 1984 semester. Department of the Interior, Richardson left the post in 1985 and became a Nixon Fellow at the Whittier Law School that year.

Helena, California, Richardson graduated from Germantown High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania his freshman year but transferred to Stanford University, where he earned an A.B.

He trained at Camp Ritchie in its Military Intelligence Training Center and is considered one of the Ritchie Boys.

Frank Kellogg Richardson (February 13, 1914 – October 5, 1999) was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. With distinction in political science in 1935 and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Army, serving from 1942 to 1945 in Europe.

In 1944, Richardson, a second lieutenant in Army Intelligence, was assigned to the top secret Ultra Project at Bletchley Park (north of London), where he learned that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was scheduled to address the British Parliament on the status of the war effort in the Balkans. In 1970, Governor Ronald Reagan appointed Richardson as Sacramento County Superior Court's presiding judge. In October 1971, Governor Reagan appointed Richardson Presiding Justice of the California Third District Court of Appeal.

In November 1978, Richardson stood for reelection and was retained. While working as an usher at the local Methodist church, Their marriage would produce four sons and last for 56 years until Frank Richardson's death in 1999. During World War II, Richardson entered the U.S.

Wearing his US Army uniform and using identification papers from the U.S. Embassy, Richardson talked his way through multiple layers of security and was escorted to a seat in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery next to the Archbishop of Canterbury. By the end of the war, he was a First Lieutenant and had been awarded two service stars.

While on the court, Richardson wrote 212 dissenting opinions and 182 majority opinions. Then, President Reagan appointed Richardson as solicitor to the U.S.

After being admitted to the California State Bar in 1938, Richardson entered private practice in Oroville sharing office space with retired Butte County Judge Hirman Gregory. Richardson retired from the Court on December 2, 1983. Richardson died at his Sacramento home of complications from Parkinson's disease on October 5, 1999.

Reagan had wanted to name Richardson Chief Justice of California that year, but Chief Justice Donald Wright refused to retire because he was "frightened" of the prospect of Richardson as Chief Justice.

Research notes

• Also Class 18 JapOB
• 12/28/44 - Assignment date?

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	85
row_source	demographics

Sources

• Wikipedia: Frank K. Richardson
• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)