Former Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardsonwho was US Ambassador to the UN and Secretary of Energy under President Bill Clinton, died in 75 years at homeThe Richardson Center announced this on Saturday in a statement.

“He has lived his entire life serving others, including time in government and a subsequent career helping to free people who were taken hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. This is stated in a statement by Mickey Bergman, vice president of the Richardson Center.

Richardson died in his sleep at his summer home in Massachusetts., detailed US media such as CNN. The Democrat devoted his post-political career to the release of Americans detained abroad.

Born November 15, 1947 in California and from a mexican motherThroughout his career, Richardson has campaigned for the release of hostages and prisoners in places such as North Korea, Iraq, Cuba, Russia, and Sudan.

His name appears several times in candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Just a few days ago, it was revealed that he was nominated again this year, this time by four Democratic senators: Bob Menendez, Joe Manchin, Martin Heinrich, and Ben Ray Lujan.

“Needless to say, it is a great honor for me nominated for a prestigious award knowing it’s unlikely,” Richardson told the newspaper on the last day of Day 25. Hill.

His candidacy was supported 14 letters from former hostages and their families, praising her role in his release.

“There wasn’t a single person that Governor Richardson didn’t talk to. if it contained a promise to restore freedom to the individual,” added the statement released today by the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, established with the mission of participating in conflict resolution and prisoner release.

Richardson was born in Pasadena, California, although grew up in the Coyoacan area of ​​the Mexican capital. because his father worked there, a bank executive of Anglo-American and Mexican origin. His mother was Mexican of Spanish descent.

As a child, he was sent to study in the United States. and later received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Tufts University in 1970.

From a very young age, he began his political career working for a Republican congressman. In his early years he also worked in Henry Kissinger State Department during the administration of Richard Nixon (1969-1974).

In 1982, he was elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives.. He spent 14 years in Congress where he met Bill Clinton. (1993-2001) and began to indirectly participate in negotiations for the release of the hostages.

It was in 1994 when Clinton asked him to participate in the release of two American pilots whose helicopter was shot down in North Korean airspace because Richardson happened to be visiting that country.

In 1997, Clinton named him US Ambassador to the UN (1997-1998), and a year later he was elected Secretary of Energy until the end of the Democratic President’s second term. He was a Hispanic politician who rose to prominence during those years.

At that time, he also participated in various foreign policy missions. including talks in Baghdad with Saddam Hussein obtain the release of two American aerospace workers captured by the Iraqis.

After the ouster of the Clinton administration in 2002, Richardson became the only Hispanic governor of the United States at the time and fifth in the history of New Mexico, the state with the highest Hispanic population in the country.

He was governor for two terms and in 2008, he sought the Democratic presidential nomination. but he dropped out after the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.