BGen John Alexander "Jack" Richardson (1 December 1932 – 2 June 2010) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2002.
After riding restructuring, he was re-elected at the Perth—Middlesex electoral district in the 1997 and 2000 federal elections.
[1] The reasons for his resignation were initially declared to be "personal",[2] but later reports indicated Richardson had been ill for some time.
A subsequent by-election loss of Richardson's riding to Progressive Conservative candidate Gary Schellenberger was blamed by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on Richardson's reluctance to leave Canadian politics when his health began deteriorating.
[3] Richardson died in his birth city of Peterborough, Ontario on 2 June 2010 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease.