Richard Brodhead (January 5, 1811 – September 16, 1863) was an American lawyer and politician from Easton, Pennsylvania.

He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions during the Twenty-ninth Congress.

He served as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Claims during the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses.

He was the most recent resident of the Lehigh Valley area to serve as United States Senator from Pennsylvania until the election of Pat Toomey in 2010.

[1] Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1900), 80–1; Papers of Jefferson Davis 1:520-1; 1:279, n20.