He was elected to the New Jersey State Senate in 1963, defeating Democrat Elmer Matthews, the sitting Assembly Speaker, and George Richardson, a Democratic Assemblyman running as an Independent.
Former Assemblyman George Richardson finished third with 3,086 votes (5%) and Wilburt Kornegy received 718 votes (1%).
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He was the younger son of George Richardson (d. 1806), master of Blackett's charity school, Newcastle; his elder brother was Thomas Miles Richardson, the artist.