CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · General Reference

Governor Richardson

Wikimedia disambiguation page

Cross-disciplinary reference desk with index cards, atlas, dictionary and catalogue
General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 31, 2024
Entity authorityQ72071709 ↗
Source-derived summary

Governor Richardson may refer to:

Bill Richardson (1947-2023), 30th Governor of New Mexico

Friend Richardson (1865–1943), 25th Governor of California

James Burchill Richardson (1770–1836), 41st Governor of South Carolina

John Peter Richardson II (1801–1864), 59th Governor of South Carolina

John Peter Richardson III (1831–1899), 83rd Governor of South Carolina, son of John Peter Richardson II.

William Alexander Richardson (1811–1875), 5th Governor of Nebraska Territory

See also

John Richardson (colonial administrator) (1679–1742), Deputy Governor of Anguilla from 1735 until 1741

William Richardson (colonial administrator) (fl.

Editorial summary

“Governor Richardson” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Governor, Richardson and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 2023, 1865, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Governor, Richardson and Wikimedia.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Governor Richardson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Governor, Richardson and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 31, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q72071709. The first chronological checks are 1947, 2023, 1865 and 1943.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

Best used for
  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
Verify next

The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Governor Richardson”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Governor Richardson primary sources, Governor Richardson archive and Governor research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Governor Richardson”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Governor Richardson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.