Bill Richardson was born in Pasadena, California to William Blaine Richardson Jr. and Maria Luisa. His mother had been his father’s secretary. Just before Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because as he explained, “My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States.
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He was the US ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, a US congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
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In December 2008, Richardson was nominated for the cabinet-level position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration but withdrew a month later, as he was being investigated for possible improper business dealings in New Mexico.
Richardson occasionally provided advice on diplomatic issues pertaining to North Korea and visited the nation on several occasions, including efforts to release American detainees. He completed a number of private humanitarian missions, one of which secured the release of US journalist Danny Fenster from a Myanmar prison in November 2021.
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