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Richard Codgell Badger (August 8, 1839 - April 22 1882) was a lawyer, an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, clerk of the North Carolina Senate, and a judge in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a Unionist Whig and then a Republican.

U.S. Senator George Edmund Badger was his father and Delia Haywood Williams his mother.

In August 1860 he gave a speech at North Carolina University titled “The Truth of History” - What is it?

Badger represented North Carolina governor Holden during his impeachment.<ref name=obit/

He married Betty Austin and had a daughter Mildred.