Richard Habersham
Richard Habersham (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent New York's 13th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on June 23, 2020.
Habersham completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2020
See also: New York's 13th Congressional District election, 2020
New York's 13th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Republican primary)
New York's 13th Congressional District election, 2020 (June 23 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House New York District 13
Incumbent Adriano Espaillat defeated Lovelynn Gwinn and Christopher Morris-Perry in the general election for U.S. House New York District 13 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Adriano Espaillat (D / Working Families Party) | 90.8 | 231,841 |
 | Lovelynn Gwinn (R)  | 7.8 | 19,829 | |
| Christopher Morris-Perry (Conservative Party) | 1.3 | 3,295 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 405 | ||
| Total votes: 255,370 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 13
Incumbent Adriano Espaillat defeated James Felton Keith and Ramon Rodriguez in the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 13 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Adriano Espaillat | 58.9 | 46,066 |
 | James Felton Keith | 25.3 | 19,799 | |
 | Ramon Rodriguez | 15.2 | 11,859 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.6 | 434 | ||
| Total votes: 78,158 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Pedro Lopez (D)
- Richard Habersham (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Lovelynn Gwinn advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 13.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Christopher Morris-Perry advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 13.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Adriano Espaillat advanced from the Working Families Party primary for U.S. House New York District 13.
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Richard Habersham completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Habersham's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a youngster, Richard appeared in the Broadway production of August Wilson's drama, Joe Turner's Come and Gone and played a principal character in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and The Long Walk Home with Whoopi Goldberg. He earned a scholarship to the University of Virginia where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in American History.
After college, Richard worked as a substitute teacher at PS 197/154/92 in Harlem where he experienced firsthand the degrading and painfully low-perf During the time he was caring for his father, Richard established and ran a corporate diversity program for a New York headquartered leadership development firm, founded by his mentor John Wareham. Wareham is also creator of the Eagles Foundation and the Taking Wings self-development program for inmates and at-risk youth in the state prison system. As president of the Eagles Foundation, Richard's work in prisons defined his perspective about what really matters in life.
Richard currently lives in a Mitchell Lama co-op on Riverside Drive and sits on the board of the Classical Theater of- Affordable Housing
- Education
- Environmental Justice
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See also
2020 Elections
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