Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson died in his sleep at his summer home in Massachusetts . Richardson was a longtime fixture of Democratic politics with turns as Energy Secretary and United Nations ambassador under the Clinton administration . Richardson and his namesake center had privately worked on behalf of families of hostages and detainees abroad . He traveled to Moscow last year and held meetings with Russian leadership to discuss the release of basketball star Brittney Griner and former US Marine Paul Whelan . He served two terms before leaving office in . After an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in . Richardson launched the Richardson Center for Global Engagement a non-profit promoting international peace in . The world has lost a champion for those held unjustly abroad and I have lost a mentor and a dear friend, said a New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich in a statement on Twitter . He said he will forever be grateful for all that he taught me . He married Barbara Richardson in and had one daughter . He was born in Mexico City Mexico and had been married to Barbara Richardson and had a daughter with one daughter, and had two children . He had a bachelors degree in political science and French from Tufts University and a masters degree from the Tufts School of Law and Diplomacy in . He earned a . bachelor degree from Tuft University in and a PhD from Harvard Harvard University . He also had a PhD and a master from Harvard University. He was married to his wife. He had three children and had three daughters. He died in 2007. He worked for two years. He served as a physician and a physician. He also worked for a pediatric pediatric pediatric and a doctor. He is married to a pediatric physician. His father, a pediatric cancer. He has been a pediatric
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson dies at 75 . Richardson was governor of New Mexico
