Richard Burpee Hanson, PC, KC (March 20, 1879 – July 14, 1948) was a Canadian politician who served as interim leader of the Conservative Party from May 14, 1940, until November 11, 1941.

[3] He was appointed to the Cabinet of R. B. Bennett in 1934 as Minister of Trade and Commerce.

Since Manion resigned two months after the election, the Conservative caucus chose Hanson as interim leader and he served as Conservative Party Leader until Arthur Meighen was appointed the party's new leader in November 1941.

[6] The University of New Brunswick hands out the Richard Burpee Hanson Prize to a Faculty of Arts male student with the highest grades in English and History in the Sophomore level.

[7] There is a Richard Burpee Hanson fonds at Library and Archives Canada.