Father: Edward Richardson (surgeon, Harvard medical professor)
Mother: Clara Richardson (d. circa 1922 giving birth to brother George)
Brother: George Richardson
Brother: Peirson Richardson
Wife: Anne Francis Hazard (m. 1952, until his death, d. 1999, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Henry (b. 1956)
Daughter: Nancy (b. 1958)
Son: Michael (b. 1961)
High School:Milton Academy, Boston, MA
University:BA Philosophy, Harvard University (1941, magna cum laude)
Law School:Harvard Law School (1947)
US Secretary of Commerce (1976-77)
US Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1975-76)
US Attorney General (1973)
US Secretary of Defense (1973)
US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1970-73)
US Under Secretary of State (1969-70)
Attorney General of Massachusetts (1967-69)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1965-67)
US Attorney Massachusetts (1959-61)
Law Clerk forFelix Frankfurter, Supreme Court
Law Clerk forLearned Hand, Appeals Court
Watergate Scandal Refused to fire Special ProsecutorArchibald Cox
Alfalfa Club (1973)
Council on Foreign Relations
Freemasonry
Harvard Law Review Editor
Purple Heart
Lasker Award Public Service Award (1978)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1999)
Sued by the ACLU (18-Mar-1971)
Funeral: Richard Nixon (1994)
AKA Elliot Lee Richardson