James Prioleau "Dick" Richards (August 31, 1894 – February 21, 1979) was a lawyer, judge, and Democrat U.S. Representative from South Carolina between 1933 and 1957.

During the First World War, Richards served overseas as a private, corporal, sergeant, and second lieutenant in the Trench Mortar Battery, Headquarters Company, 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division from 1917 to 1919.

He served as judge of the probate court of Lancaster County, South Carolina, from 1923 to 1933.

[5] During the Eighty-second and Eighty-fourth Congresses he served as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.