Richard R. Stout (September 21, 1912 – October 16, 1986) was an American politician who served in the New Jersey Senate from 1952 to 1974.
[1] Stout first ran for the Senate in 1951 against incumbent Republican Senator J. Stanley Herbert with the support of the Monmouth County Republican Organization.
[2] He won the primary and subsequently the general election and represented the entire county from 1952 to 1966.
In the 1973 elections, Stout ran for reelection from the new 10th district comprising the southern shore communities of Monmouth County.
[3] He died of cardiac arrest on October 16, 1986, in Newark, New Jersey at age 74.