Richardson (c1837–1872) was enslaved and post-Civil War, worked as a carpenter and owned a tavern. He was elected to the Georgia Assembly representing Clarke County. Richardson survived two Ku Klux Klan attacks in the same month on his home in Watkinsville. In 1872 Richardson testified to a congressional committee that it was not safe for him to go home, so he was staying in Athens, Georgia. He was reinstated in 1870 and served in the Assembly until his death from pneumonia in 1872.