Frank Richter, Jr.

Francis Xavier Richter Jr. (July 12, 1910 he was the youngest son of Florence Elizabeth Loudon and Frank Richter Sr., who settled in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia in 1864 and became a successful rancher and entrepreneur there. The elder Richter had five daughters and six sons, of whom the youngest was Frank Jr.

Originally a cattle rancher and fruit grower, He was re-elected there in 1956 and in 1960, he kept the portfolio following his re-election in 1963. He did not run in the 1975 election.

He married his first wife Ina Gadberry in 1933, then met his second wife Sylvia Reveley while working at the Ministry of Mines. He died at Brentwood Bay at the age of 67.