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Bill Richardson

William Blaine Richardson III (born November 15, 1947)[1] is an American politician, author, and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. He was also the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration, a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.

Bill Richardson
30th Governor of New Mexico
In office
January 1, 2003 – January 1, 2011
LieutenantDiane Denish
Preceded byGary Johnson
Succeeded bySusana Martinez
9th United States Secretary of Energy
In office
August 18, 1998 – January 20, 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byFederico Peña
Succeeded bySpencer Abraham
21st United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
February 18, 1997 – August 18, 1998
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byMadeleine Albright
Succeeded byRichard Holbrooke
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Mexico's 3rd district
In office
January 3, 1983 – February 13, 1997
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byBill Redmond
Personal details
Born
William Blaine Richardson III

(1947-11-15) November 15, 1947 (age 75)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
(m. 1972)
Children1
EducationTufts University (BA, MA)

In December 2008, Richardson was nominated for the cabinet-level position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration[2] but withdrew a month later, as he was being investigated for possible improper business dealings in New Mexico.[3][4][5] Although the investigation was later dropped, it was seen to have damaged Richardson's career as his second and final term as New Mexico governor concluded.[6]

Richardson has occasionally provided advice on diplomatic issues pertaining to North Korea and has visited the nation on several occasions, including efforts to release American detainees.[7] He has completed a number of private humanitarian missions, one of which secured the release of U.S. journalist Danny Fenster from a Myanmar prison in November 2021.[8]

Early life and education

Richardson was born in Pasadena, California.[9] He grew up in the borough of Coyoacán in Mexico City.[10] His father, William Blaine Richardson, Jr. (1891–1972), who was of Anglo-American and Mexican descent, was an American bank executive from Boston who worked in Mexico for what is now Citibank.[11] His mother, María Luisa López-Collada Márquez (1914–2011), had been his father's secretary — she was the Mexican-born daughter of a Mexican mother and a Spanish father from Villaviciosa, Asturias.[12] Richardson's father was born on a ship heading towards Nicaragua.[9] Just before Bill Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because, as Richardson explained, "My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States."[9]

Richardson, a United States citizen by birth, spent his childhood in a lavish hacienda in Coyoacán's barrio of San Francisco[10][12] where he was raised as a Roman Catholic.[13] When Richardson was 13, his parents sent him to the U.S. to attend Middlesex School, a preparatory school in Concord, Massachusetts, where he played baseball as a pitcher.[9] He entered Tufts University[14] in 1966, where he continued to play baseball.[15]

In 1967, he played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League, pitching for the Cotuit Kettleers; he returned to the league in 1968 with the Harwich Mariners.[16][17] A Kettleers program included the words "Drafted by K.C." Richardson said:

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted.... And it stayed with me all these years.[18]

Richardson's original biographies stated he had been drafted by the Kansas City Athletics and the Chicago Cubs to play professional baseball, but a 2005 Albuquerque Journal investigation discovered he never was on any official draft. Richardson acknowledged the error, which he claimed was unintentional, saying he had been scouted by several teams and told that he "would or could" be drafted, but he was mistaken in saying that he actually had been drafted.[19]

He earned a Bachelor's degree at Tufts University in 1970, majoring in French and political science, and was a member and president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He earned a master's degree in international affairs from the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1971. He had met his future wife Barbara (née Flavin) when they were in high school in Concord, Massachusetts, and they married in 1972 following her graduation from Wheaton College.[20]

Richardson is a descendant of William Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower.[21]

Early political career

After college, Richardson worked for Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse from Massachusetts. He was later a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Richardson worked on congressional relations for the Henry Kissinger State Department during the Nixon administration.

U.S. Representative

 
Bill Richardson as a congressman

In 1978, Richardson moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and ran for the House of Representatives in 1980 as a Democrat, losing narrowly to longtime 1st District representative and future United States Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan (R). Two years later, Richardson was elected to New Mexico's newly created third district, taking in most of the northern part of the state. Richardson spent 14 years in Congress, representing the country's most diverse district and holding 2,000 town meetings.

Richardson served as Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the 98th Congress (1983–1985) and as Chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Native American Affairs in the 103rd Congress (1993–1994). Richardson sponsored a number of bills, including the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments, the Indian Dams Safety Act, the Tribal Self-Governance Act, and the Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act.

He became a member of the Democratic leadership as a deputy majority whip, where he became friends with Bill Clinton after they worked closely on several issues, including when he served as the ranking House Democrat in favor of NAFTA's passage in 1993.[12][22] For his work as a back channel to Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's president at the time of the negotiations, he was awarded the Aztec Eagle Award, Mexico's highest award for a foreigner.[23] Clinton in turn sent Richardson on various foreign policy missions, including a trip in 1996 in which Richardson traveled to Baghdad with Peter Bourne and engaged in lengthy one-on-one negotiations with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of two American aerospace workers who had been captured by the Iraqis after wandering over the Kuwaiti border. Richardson also visited Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru, India, North Korea, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Sudan to represent U.S. interests and met with Slobodan Milošević.[12] In 1996, he played a major role in securing the release of American Evan Hunziker from North Korean custody[24] and for securing a pardon for Eliadah McCord, an American convicted and imprisoned in Bangladesh.[25] Due to these missions, Richardson was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times.[12]

Ambassador to the United Nations

As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations between 1997 and 1998, Richardson flew to Afghanistan to meet with the Taliban and Abdul Rachid Dostum, an Uzbek warlord. The ceasefire he believed he had negotiated with the help of Bruce Riedel of the National Security Council failed to hold.[26]

U.S. Secretary of Energy

 
Richardson as Secretary of Energy

The Senate confirmed Richardson to be Clinton's Secretary of Energy on July 31, 1998. His tenure at the Department of Energy was marred by the Wen Ho Lee nuclear controversy. As told by The New York Times in a special report,[27] a scientist later named as Lee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory was reported as a suspect who might have given nuclear secrets to the Chinese government. The article mentioned Richardson several times, although he denied in sworn testimony that he was the source or that he made improper disclosures.[28] After being fired and spending nine months in solitary confinement as an alleged security risk,[29] Lee was later cleared of espionage charges and released with an apology from the judge.[30] Eventually, Lee won a $1.6 million settlement against the federal government and several news outlets, including the Times and The Washington Post, for the accusation.[31][32] Richardson was also criticized by the Senate for his handling of the espionage inquiry, which involved missing computer hard drives containing sensitive data, and for not testifying in front of Congress sooner.[33][34] Richardson justified his response by saying that he was waiting to uncover more information before speaking to Congress.[35] Republican Senators called for Richardson's resignation, while both parties criticized his role in the incident, and the scandal ended Richardson's hope of being named as Al Gore's running mate for the 2000 presidential election.[12]

Richardson tightened security following the scandal, leading to the creation of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA, not to be confused with the NSA and the NSC). This foreshadowed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in reaction to the 9/11 attacks. Richardson also became the first Energy Secretary to implement a plan to dispose of nuclear waste.[citation needed] He created the Director for Native American Affairs position in the department in 1998, and in January 2000, oversaw the largest return of federal lands, 84,000 acres (340 km2), to an Indian Tribe (the Northern Ute Tribe of Utah) in more than 100 years.[36] Richardson also directed the overhaul of the department's consultation policy with Native American tribes and established the Tribal Energy Program.

Educational and corporate positions

 
Richardson as UN Ambassador

With the end of the Clinton administration in January 2001, Richardson took on a number of different positions. He was an adjunct professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a lecturer at the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West.[37] In 2000, Richardson was awarded a United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellowship. He spent the next year researching and writing on the negotiations with North Korea and the energy dimensions of U.S. relations. In 2011, Richardson was named a senior fellow at the Baker Institute of Rice University.

Richardson also joined Kissinger McLarty Associates, a "strategic advisory firm" headed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty, as Senior Managing Director.[38] From February 2001 to June 2002, he served on the board of directors of Peregrine Systems, Inc. He also served on the corporate boards of several energy companies, including Valero Energy Corporation and Diamond Offshore Drilling. He withdrew from these boards after being nominated by the Democratic Party for governor of New Mexico, but retained considerable stock holdings in Valero and Diamond Offshore. He would later sell these stocks during his campaign for president in 2007, saying he was "getting questions" about the propriety of these holdings, especially given his past as energy secretary, and that it had become a distraction.[39]

Richardson is on the board of directors of the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD),[40] which was created after the 2011 Tucson shooting that left six dead and 13 wounded, including Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.[41]

Governor of New Mexico

First term

Richardson was elected governor of New Mexico in November 2002, having defeated the Republican nominee, John Sanchez, 56–39%. During the campaign, he set a Guinness World Record for most handshakes in eight hours by a politician, breaking Theodore Roosevelt's record.[42] He succeeded a two-term Republican governor, Gary Johnson.[43] He took office in January 2003 as the only Hispanic Governor in the United States. In his first year, Richardson proposed "tax cuts to promote growth and investment" and passed a broad personal income tax cut and won a statewide special election to transfer money from the state's Permanent Fund to meet current expenses and projects. In early 2005, Richardson helped make New Mexico the first state in the nation to provide $400,000 in life insurance coverage for New Mexico National Guard members who serve on active duty. Thirty-five states have since followed suit.

Working with the legislature, he formed Richardson's Investment Partnership (GRIP) in 2003. The partnership has been used to fund large-scale public infrastructure projects throughout New Mexico, including the use of highway funds to construct a brand new commuter rail line (the Rail Runner) that runs between Belen, Albuquerque, and Bernalillo. He supported a variety of LGBT rights in his career as governor; he added sexual orientation and gender identity to New Mexico's list of civil rights categories. However, he was opposed to same-sex marriage, and faced criticism for his use of the anti-gay slur "maricón" on the Don Imus Show.[44]

During the summer of 2003, he met with a delegation from North Korea at its request to discuss concerns over that country's nuclear weapons. At the request of the White House, he also flew to North Korea in 2005 and met with another North Korean delegation in 2006. On December 7, 2006, Richardson was named as the Special Envoy for Hemispheric Affairs for the Secretary General of the Organization of American States with the mandate to "promote dialogue on issues of importance to the region, such as immigration and free trade".[45]

In 2003, Richardson backed and signed legislation creating a permit system for New Mexicans to carry concealed handguns. He applied for and received a concealed weapons permit, though by his own admission he seldom carries a gun.[46]

As Richardson discussed frequently during his 2008 run for president, he supported a controversial New Mexico law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses for reasons of public safety. He said that because of the program, traffic fatalities had gone down, and the percentage of uninsured drivers decreased from 33% to 11%.[47]

 
Gov. Richardson and Richard Branson with SpaceShipTwo, 2010

He was named Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association in 2004 and announced a desire to increase the role of Democratic governors in deciding the future of their party.

In December 2005, Richardson announced the intention of New Mexico to collaborate with billionaire Richard Branson to bring space tourism to the proposed Spaceport America located near Las Cruces, New Mexico. In 2006, Forbes credited Richardson's reforms in naming Albuquerque, New Mexico, the best city in the United States for business and careers. The Cato Institute, meanwhile, has consistently rated Richardson as one of the most fiscally responsible Democratic governors in the nation.[48]

In March 2006, Richardson vetoed legislation that would ban the use of eminent domain to transfer property to private developers, as allowed by the Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London.[49] He promised to work with the legislature to draft new legislation addressing the issue in the 2007 legislative session.

On September 7, 2006, Richardson flew to Sudan to meet Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and successfully negotiated the release of imprisoned journalist Paul Salopek. The Sudanese had charged Salopek with espionage on August 26, 2006, while on a National Geographic assignment. In January 2007, at the request of the Save Darfur Coalition, he brokered a 60-day cease-fire between al-Bashir and leaders of several rebel factions in Darfur, the western Sudanese region. The cease-fire never became effective, however, with allegations of breaches on all sides.[50]

Second term

 
2006 New Mexico gubernatorial election results by county.

Richardson won his second term as Governor of New Mexico on November 7, 2006, 68–32% against former New Mexico Republican Party Chairman John Dendahl. Richardson received the highest percentage of votes in any gubernatorial election in the state's history.[51]

In December 2006, Richardson announced that he would support a ban on cockfighting in New Mexico.[52] On March 12, 2007, Richardson signed into law a bill that banned cockfighting in New Mexico. Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are now the only parts of the United States where cockfighting is legal.[53]

During New Mexico's 2007 legislative session, Richardson signed a bill into law that made New Mexico the 12th state to legalize cannabis for medical reasons. When asked if this would hurt him in a presidential election, he stated that it did not matter, as it was "the right thing to do".[54]

During 2008 and 2009, Richardson faced "possible legal issues" while a federal grand jury investigated pay-to-play allegations in the awarding of a lucrative state contract to a company that gave campaign contributions to Richardson's political action committee, Moving America Forward.[55][56][57] The company in question, CDR, was alleged to have funneled more than $100,000 in donations to Richardson's PAC in exchange for state construction projects.[58] Richardson said when he withdrew his Commerce Secretary nomination that he was innocent; his popularity then slipped below 50% in his home state.[58] In August 2009, federal prosecutors dropped the pending investigation against the governor, and there was speculation in the media about Richardson's career after his second term as New Mexico governor concluded.[6]

On March 18, 2009, he signed a bill repealing the death penalty, making New Mexico the second U.S. state, after New Jersey, to repeal the death penalty by legislative means since the 1960s.[59] Richardson was subsequently honored with the 2009 Human Rights Award by Death Penalty Focus.[60]

In its April 2010 report, ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Richardson one of the 11 worst governors in the United States because of various ethics issues throughout Richardson's term as governor.[61][62][63] The group accused Richardson of allowing political allies to benefit from firms connected to state investments, rewarding close associates with state positions or benefits (including providing a longtime friend and political supporter with a costly state contract), and allowing pay-to-play activity in his administration. They also opined that he fell short on efforts to make state government more transparent.[64]

In December 2010, while still serving as governor, Richardson returned to North Korea in an unofficial capacity at the invitation of the North's chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye-gwan. Upon arriving in Pyongyang on December 16, Richardson told reporters that his "objective is to see if we can reduce the tension on the Korean peninsula, that is my objective. I am going to have a whole series of talks with North Korean officials here and I look forward to my discussions", he said.[65] On December 19, Richardson said his talks with North Korean officials made "some progress" in trying to resolve what he calls a "very tense" situation. Speaking from Pyongyang, Richardson told U.S. television network CNN that a North Korean general he met was receptive to his proposal for setting up a hotline between North and South Korean forces, and also was open to his idea for a military commission to monitor disputes in and around the Yellow Sea.[66]

After his return from North Korea, Richardson dealt with the issue of a pardon for William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, for killing Sheriff William J. Brady of Lincoln County, New Mexico, some 130 years before. Following up on the promise of a pardon at the time by then-territorial governor Lew Wallace, Richardson said he could not pardon Bonney posthumously because he did not want to second-guess his predecessor's decision. "It was a very close call", Richardson said. "The romanticism appealed to me to issue a pardon, but the facts and the evidence did not support it."[67]

Richardson's second term in office ended in 2011 and he was term-limited from further terms as governor.[68]

2008 presidential campaign

 
Richardson campaigning in Elko, Nevada; July 2007
 
Richardson speaks during the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Richardson was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential election but dropped out on January 10, 2008, after lackluster showings in the first primary and caucus contests. Despite his long history and friendship with the Clinton family, Richardson endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination on March 21, 2008, instead of Hillary Clinton.[69] Commentator and Clinton ally James Carville compared Richardson to Judas Iscariot for the move.[70] Richardson responded in a Washington Post article, feeling "compelled to defend [himself] against character assassination and baseless allegations."[71]

Richardson was a rumored vice presidential candidate for Senator and Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama, and was fully vetted by the Obama campaign,[72] before Obama chose Joe Biden on August 23, 2008.[73]

Secretary of Commerce nomination

Following Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election, Richardson's name was frequently mentioned as a possible Cabinet appointment in the incoming Obama administration. Most of this speculation surrounded the position of Secretary of State, given Richardson's background as a diplomat.[74] Richardson did not publicly comment on the speculation.[75] Hillary Clinton was Obama's nominee for Secretary of State.

Richardson was also being considered for the position of Commerce Secretary. On December 3, 2008, Obama tapped Richardson for the post.[76] On January 4, 2009, Richardson withdrew his name as Commerce Secretary nominee because of the federal grand jury investigation into pay-to-play allegations.[3] The New York Times had reported in late December that the grand jury investigation issue would be raised at Richardson's confirmation hearings.[56] Later, in August 2009, Justice Department officials decided not to seek indictments.[77]

Allegations of corruption

According to his autobiography, then-United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson was asked by the White House in 1997 to interview Monica Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the United Nations. Richardson did so, and later offered her a position which she declined.[78] The American Spectator alleged that Richardson knew more about the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal than he declared to the grand jury.[79]

In 2011, Richardson was under investigation for his role in alleged campaign finance violations. A former member of Richardson's campaign claimed that during Richardson's 2008 presidential campaign, Richardson and members of his campaign paid an unknown woman $250,000 to keep her from exposing an alleged affair they had in 2004.[80][81]

During the 2012 trial United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm, the former CDR employee Doug Goldberg testified that he was involved in giving Bill Richardson campaign contributions amounting to $100,000 in exchange for his company CDR being hired to handle a $400- million swap deal for the New Mexico state government. During his testimony, Doug Goldberg stated that he had been given an envelope containing a check for $25,000 payable to Moving America Forward, Bill Richardson's political action committee, by his boss Stewart Wolmark and told to deliver it to Bill Richardson at a fund raiser. When Goldberg handed the envelope to Richardson, he allegedly told Goldberg to "Tell the big guy [Stewart Wolmark] I'm going to hire you guys". Goldberg went on to testify that CDR was hired but that he later learned that another firm was hired by Richardson to perform the actual work required and that Stewart Wolmark had given Richardson a further $75,000 in contributions.[82]

In 2019 it was revealed that Richardson was among those named in court documents from a civil suit between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The documents were unsealed on August 9, 2019, a day before Epstein's suicide.[83][84] Giuffre alleges that she was sexually trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to several high-profile individuals, including Richardson, while she was underage in the early 2000s.[85][83] 2015 court documents that were unsealed in 2019 alleged Richardson's possible involvement with the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking ring, which allegations he denied.[86] A spokesperson for Richardson also denied the claims, stating that he did not know Giuffre and had never seen Epstein in the presence of young or underage girls.[85] Richardson released a statement in August 2019, saying he had offered his assistance in the investigation of Epstein to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Richardson's attorney, Jeff Brown of Dechert LLP, later said that he was informed by the Assistant US Attorney that Richardson is neither a target, subject, nor witness in the case and that there is no allegation against Richardson that the government is actively investigating.[87]

Private diplomacy

Richardson has visited North Korea a number of times, and has been involved in negotiations with the leadership there since the early 1990s. In 1996, he accompanied U.S. State Department officials and successfully negotiated the release of Evan Hunziker, the first American civilian to be arrested by North Korea on espionage charges since the end of the Korean War.

In 2011, he was appointed as a special envoy for the Organization of American States.[88] Richardson formed a foundation, the Richardson Center, to help negotiate the release of political prisoners globally.[89]

In January 2013, he led a delegation to North Korea of business leaders, including Google chairman Eric Schmidt, shortly after the state launched an orbital rocket.[90] Richardson called the trip a "private, humanitarian" mission by U.S. citizens. He tried unsuccessfully to speak to North Korean officials about the detention of Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen accused of committing "hostile" acts against the state, and sought to visit him, but was only able to deliver to authorities a letter from Bae's son.[91][92] (Bae was released in November 2014.)

In March 2016, at the request of Ohio Governor John Kasich, Richardson attempted to negotiate for the release of Cincinnati college student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained on a visit to North Korea.[7][89] Warmbier was released in a vegetative state, and later died in Cincinnati in June 2017.

In November 2021 Richardson undertook a mission to Myanmar, where he negotiated with military junta head Min Aung Hlaing, and secured the release of U.S. journalist Danny Fenster from an 11-year prison sentence.[93][94][8]

Post-gubernatorial career

In 2011, Richardson joined the boards of APCO Worldwide company Global Political Strategies as chairman,[95] the World Resources Institute,[96] the National Council for Science and the Environment,[97] and Abengoa (international advisory board).[98]

In 2012, Richardson joined the advisory board of Grow Energy and Refugees International. He is a member of Washington, D.C.-based Western Hemisphere think tank, the Inter-American Dialogue.[99]

In December 2012, Richardson became chairman of the Board of Directors of Car Charging Group, the largest independent owner and operator of public electric vehicle charging stations in the United States. In 2013 Richardson joined the Board of Advisors for the Fuel Freedom Foundation.[100]

Publications

  • Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life, an autobiography, published March 2005 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, written with Michael Ruby ISBN 0399153241
  • Leading by Example: How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution, released October 2007
  • How to Sweet-Talk a Shark: Strategies and Stories from a Master Negotiator, published October 15, 2013 by Rodale Books, written with Kevin Bleyer.
  • Universal Transparency: A Goal for the U.S. at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, published January 2011, Arms Control Today; Bill Richardson with Gay Dillingham, Charles Streeper, and Arjun Makhijani
  • Sweeping Up Dirty Bombs, published Fall 2011, Federation of American Scientists; Bill Richardson, Charles Streeper, and Margarita Sevcik

See also

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bill, richardson, other, people, named, william, richardson, william, richardson, disambiguation, william, blaine, richardson, born, november, 1947, american, politician, author, diplomat, served, 30th, governor, mexico, from, 2003, 2011, also, ambassador, uni. For other people named William Richardson see William Richardson disambiguation William Blaine Richardson III born November 15 1947 1 is an American politician author and diplomat who served as the 30th governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011 He was also the U S Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration a U S Congressman chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association Bill Richardson30th Governor of New MexicoIn office January 1 2003 January 1 2011LieutenantDiane DenishPreceded byGary JohnsonSucceeded bySusana Martinez9th United States Secretary of EnergyIn office August 18 1998 January 20 2001PresidentBill ClintonPreceded byFederico PenaSucceeded bySpencer Abraham21st United States Ambassador to the United NationsIn office February 18 1997 August 18 1998PresidentBill ClintonPreceded byMadeleine AlbrightSucceeded byRichard HolbrookeMember of the U S House of Representatives from New Mexico s 3rd districtIn office January 3 1983 February 13 1997Preceded byConstituency establishedSucceeded byBill RedmondPersonal detailsBornWilliam Blaine Richardson III 1947 11 15 November 15 1947 age 75 Pasadena California U S Political partyDemocraticSpouseBarbara Flavin m 1972 wbr Children1EducationTufts University BA MA In December 2008 Richardson was nominated for the cabinet level position of Secretary of Commerce in the first Obama administration 2 but withdrew a month later as he was being investigated for possible improper business dealings in New Mexico 3 4 5 Although the investigation was later dropped it was seen to have damaged Richardson s career as his second and final term as New Mexico governor concluded 6 Richardson has occasionally provided advice on diplomatic issues pertaining to North Korea and has visited the nation on several occasions including efforts to release American detainees 7 He has completed a number of private humanitarian missions one of which secured the release of U S journalist Danny Fenster from a Myanmar prison in November 2021 8 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Early political career 3 U S Representative 4 Ambassador to the United Nations 5 U S Secretary of Energy 6 Educational and corporate positions 7 Governor of New Mexico 7 1 First term 7 2 Second term 8 2008 presidential campaign 9 Secretary of Commerce nomination 10 Allegations of corruption 11 Private diplomacy 12 Post gubernatorial career 13 Publications 14 See also 15 References 16 External linksEarly life and education EditRichardson was born in Pasadena California 9 He grew up in the borough of Coyoacan in Mexico City 10 His father William Blaine Richardson Jr 1891 1972 who was of Anglo American and Mexican descent was an American bank executive from Boston who worked in Mexico for what is now Citibank 11 His mother Maria Luisa Lopez Collada Marquez 1914 2011 had been his father s secretary she was the Mexican born daughter of a Mexican mother and a Spanish father from Villaviciosa Asturias 12 Richardson s father was born on a ship heading towards Nicaragua 9 Just before Bill Richardson was born his father sent his mother to California to give birth because as Richardson explained My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States 9 Richardson a United States citizen by birth spent his childhood in a lavish hacienda in Coyoacan s barrio of San Francisco 10 12 where he was raised as a Roman Catholic 13 When Richardson was 13 his parents sent him to the U S to attend Middlesex School a preparatory school in Concord Massachusetts where he played baseball as a pitcher 9 He entered Tufts University 14 in 1966 where he continued to play baseball 15 In 1967 he played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League pitching for the Cotuit Kettleers he returned to the league in 1968 with the Harwich Mariners 16 17 A Kettleers program included the words Drafted by K C Richardson said When I saw that program in 1967 I was convinced I was drafted And it stayed with me all these years 18 Richardson s original biographies stated he had been drafted by the Kansas City Athletics and the Chicago Cubs to play professional baseball but a 2005 Albuquerque Journal investigation discovered he never was on any official draft Richardson acknowledged the error which he claimed was unintentional saying he had been scouted by several teams and told that he would or could be drafted but he was mistaken in saying that he actually had been drafted 19 He earned a Bachelor s degree at Tufts University in 1970 majoring in French and political science and was a member and president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity He earned a master s degree in international affairs from the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1971 He had met his future wife Barbara nee Flavin when they were in high school in Concord Massachusetts and they married in 1972 following her graduation from Wheaton College 20 Richardson is a descendant of William Brewster a passenger on the Mayflower 21 Early political career EditAfter college Richardson worked for Republican Congressman F Bradford Morse from Massachusetts He was later a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Richardson worked on congressional relations for the Henry Kissinger State Department during the Nixon administration U S Representative Edit Bill Richardson as a congressman In 1978 Richardson moved to Santa Fe New Mexico and ran for the House of Representatives in 1980 as a Democrat losing narrowly to longtime 1st District representative and future United States Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan R Two years later Richardson was elected to New Mexico s newly created third district taking in most of the northern part of the state Richardson spent 14 years in Congress representing the country s most diverse district and holding 2 000 town meetings Richardson served as Chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the 98th Congress 1983 1985 and as Chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Native American Affairs in the 103rd Congress 1993 1994 Richardson sponsored a number of bills including the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments the Indian Dams Safety Act the Tribal Self Governance Act and the Jicarilla Apache Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act He became a member of the Democratic leadership as a deputy majority whip where he became friends with Bill Clinton after they worked closely on several issues including when he served as the ranking House Democrat in favor of NAFTA s passage in 1993 12 22 For his work as a back channel to Carlos Salinas de Gortari Mexico s president at the time of the negotiations he was awarded the Aztec Eagle Award Mexico s highest award for a foreigner 23 Clinton in turn sent Richardson on various foreign policy missions including a trip in 1996 in which Richardson traveled to Baghdad with Peter Bourne and engaged in lengthy one on one negotiations with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of two American aerospace workers who had been captured by the Iraqis after wandering over the Kuwaiti border Richardson also visited Nicaragua Guatemala Cuba Peru India North Korea Bangladesh Nigeria and Sudan to represent U S interests and met with Slobodan Milosevic 12 In 1996 he played a major role in securing the release of American Evan Hunziker from North Korean custody 24 and for securing a pardon for Eliadah McCord an American convicted and imprisoned in Bangladesh 25 Due to these missions Richardson was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times 12 Ambassador to the United Nations EditAs U S Ambassador to the United Nations between 1997 and 1998 Richardson flew to Afghanistan to meet with the Taliban and Abdul Rachid Dostum an Uzbek warlord The ceasefire he believed he had negotiated with the help of Bruce Riedel of the National Security Council failed to hold 26 U S Secretary of Energy Edit Richardson as Secretary of Energy The Senate confirmed Richardson to be Clinton s Secretary of Energy on July 31 1998 His tenure at the Department of Energy was marred by the Wen Ho Lee nuclear controversy As told by The New York Times in a special report 27 a scientist later named as Lee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory was reported as a suspect who might have given nuclear secrets to the Chinese government The article mentioned Richardson several times although he denied in sworn testimony that he was the source or that he made improper disclosures 28 After being fired and spending nine months in solitary confinement as an alleged security risk 29 Lee was later cleared of espionage charges and released with an apology from the judge 30 Eventually Lee won a 1 6 million settlement against the federal government and several news outlets including the Times and The Washington Post for the accusation 31 32 Richardson was also criticized by the Senate for his handling of the espionage inquiry which involved missing computer hard drives containing sensitive data and for not testifying in front of Congress sooner 33 34 Richardson justified his response by saying that he was waiting to uncover more information before speaking to Congress 35 Republican Senators called for Richardson s resignation while both parties criticized his role in the incident and the scandal ended Richardson s hope of being named as Al Gore s running mate for the 2000 presidential election 12 Richardson tightened security following the scandal leading to the creation of the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA not to be confused with the NSA and the NSC This foreshadowed the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in reaction to the 9 11 attacks Richardson also became the first Energy Secretary to implement a plan to dispose of nuclear waste citation needed He created the Director for Native American Affairs position in the department in 1998 and in January 2000 oversaw the largest return of federal lands 84 000 acres 340 km2 to an Indian Tribe the Northern Ute Tribe of Utah in more than 100 years 36 Richardson also directed the overhaul of the department s consultation policy with Native American tribes and established the Tribal Energy Program Educational and corporate positions Edit Richardson as UN Ambassador With the end of the Clinton administration in January 2001 Richardson took on a number of different positions He was an adjunct professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a lecturer at the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West 37 In 2000 Richardson was awarded a United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellowship He spent the next year researching and writing on the negotiations with North Korea and the energy dimensions of U S relations In 2011 Richardson was named a senior fellow at the Baker Institute of Rice University Richardson also joined Kissinger McLarty Associates a strategic advisory firm headed by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty as Senior Managing Director 38 From February 2001 to June 2002 he served on the board of directors of Peregrine Systems Inc He also served on the corporate boards of several energy companies including Valero Energy Corporation and Diamond Offshore Drilling He withdrew from these boards after being nominated by the Democratic Party for governor of New Mexico but retained considerable stock holdings in Valero and Diamond Offshore He would later sell these stocks during his campaign for president in 2007 saying he was getting questions about the propriety of these holdings especially given his past as energy secretary and that it had become a distraction 39 Richardson is on the board of directors of the National Institute for Civil Discourse NICD 40 which was created after the 2011 Tucson shooting that left six dead and 13 wounded including Congresswoman Gabby Giffords 41 Governor of New Mexico EditFirst term Edit See also 2002 New Mexico gubernatorial election Richardson was elected governor of New Mexico in November 2002 having defeated the Republican nominee John Sanchez 56 39 During the campaign he set a Guinness World Record for most handshakes in eight hours by a politician breaking Theodore Roosevelt s record 42 He succeeded a two term Republican governor Gary Johnson 43 He took office in January 2003 as the only Hispanic Governor in the United States In his first year Richardson proposed tax cuts to promote growth and investment and passed a broad personal income tax cut and won a statewide special election to transfer money from the state s Permanent Fund to meet current expenses and projects In early 2005 Richardson helped make New Mexico the first state in the nation to provide 400 000 in life insurance coverage for New Mexico National Guard members who serve on active duty Thirty five states have since followed suit Working with the legislature he formed Richardson s Investment Partnership GRIP in 2003 The partnership has been used to fund large scale public infrastructure projects throughout New Mexico including the use of highway funds to construct a brand new commuter rail line the Rail Runner that runs between Belen Albuquerque and Bernalillo He supported a variety of LGBT rights in his career as governor he added sexual orientation and gender identity to New Mexico s list of civil rights categories However he was opposed to same sex marriage and faced criticism for his use of the anti gay slur maricon on the Don Imus Show 44 During the summer of 2003 he met with a delegation from North Korea at its request to discuss concerns over that country s nuclear weapons At the request of the White House he also flew to North Korea in 2005 and met with another North Korean delegation in 2006 On December 7 2006 Richardson was named as the Special Envoy for Hemispheric Affairs for the Secretary General of the Organization of American States with the mandate to promote dialogue on issues of importance to the region such as immigration and free trade 45 In 2003 Richardson backed and signed legislation creating a permit system for New Mexicans to carry concealed handguns He applied for and received a concealed weapons permit though by his own admission he seldom carries a gun 46 As Richardson discussed frequently during his 2008 run for president he supported a controversial New Mexico law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver s licenses for reasons of public safety He said that because of the program traffic fatalities had gone down and the percentage of uninsured drivers decreased from 33 to 11 47 Gov Richardson and Richard Branson with SpaceShipTwo 2010 He was named Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association in 2004 and announced a desire to increase the role of Democratic governors in deciding the future of their party In December 2005 Richardson announced the intention of New Mexico to collaborate with billionaire Richard Branson to bring space tourism to the proposed Spaceport America located near Las Cruces New Mexico In 2006 Forbes credited Richardson s reforms in naming Albuquerque New Mexico the best city in the United States for business and careers The Cato Institute meanwhile has consistently rated Richardson as one of the most fiscally responsible Democratic governors in the nation 48 In March 2006 Richardson vetoed legislation that would ban the use of eminent domain to transfer property to private developers as allowed by the Supreme Court s 2005 decision in Kelo v City of New London 49 He promised to work with the legislature to draft new legislation addressing the issue in the 2007 legislative session On September 7 2006 Richardson flew to Sudan to meet Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir and successfully negotiated the release of imprisoned journalist Paul Salopek The Sudanese had charged Salopek with espionage on August 26 2006 while on a National Geographic assignment In January 2007 at the request of the Save Darfur Coalition he brokered a 60 day cease fire between al Bashir and leaders of several rebel factions in Darfur the western Sudanese region The cease fire never became effective however with allegations of breaches on all sides 50 Second term Edit See also 2006 New Mexico gubernatorial election 2006 New Mexico gubernatorial election results by county Richardson won his second term as Governor of New Mexico on November 7 2006 68 32 against former New Mexico Republican Party Chairman John Dendahl Richardson received the highest percentage of votes in any gubernatorial election in the state s history 51 In December 2006 Richardson announced that he would support a ban on cockfighting in New Mexico 52 On March 12 2007 Richardson signed into law a bill that banned cockfighting in New Mexico Puerto Rico U S Virgin Islands Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are now the only parts of the United States where cockfighting is legal 53 During New Mexico s 2007 legislative session Richardson signed a bill into law that made New Mexico the 12th state to legalize cannabis for medical reasons When asked if this would hurt him in a presidential election he stated that it did not matter as it was the right thing to do 54 During 2008 and 2009 Richardson faced possible legal issues while a federal grand jury investigated pay to play allegations in the awarding of a lucrative state contract to a company that gave campaign contributions to Richardson s political action committee Moving America Forward 55 56 57 The company in question CDR was alleged to have funneled more than 100 000 in donations to Richardson s PAC in exchange for state construction projects 58 Richardson said when he withdrew his Commerce Secretary nomination that he was innocent his popularity then slipped below 50 in his home state 58 In August 2009 federal prosecutors dropped the pending investigation against the governor and there was speculation in the media about Richardson s career after his second term as New Mexico governor concluded 6 On March 18 2009 he signed a bill repealing the death penalty making New Mexico the second U S state after New Jersey to repeal the death penalty by legislative means since the 1960s 59 Richardson was subsequently honored with the 2009 Human Rights Award by Death Penalty Focus 60 In its April 2010 report ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Richardson one of the 11 worst governors in the United States because of various ethics issues throughout Richardson s term as governor 61 62 63 The group accused Richardson of allowing political allies to benefit from firms connected to state investments rewarding close associates with state positions or benefits including providing a longtime friend and political supporter with a costly state contract and allowing pay to play activity in his administration They also opined that he fell short on efforts to make state government more transparent 64 In December 2010 while still serving as governor Richardson returned to North Korea in an unofficial capacity at the invitation of the North s chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye gwan Upon arriving in Pyongyang on December 16 Richardson told reporters that his objective is to see if we can reduce the tension on the Korean peninsula that is my objective I am going to have a whole series of talks with North Korean officials here and I look forward to my discussions he said 65 On December 19 Richardson said his talks with North Korean officials made some progress in trying to resolve what he calls a very tense situation Speaking from Pyongyang Richardson told U S television network CNN that a North Korean general he met was receptive to his proposal for setting up a hotline between North and South Korean forces and also was open to his idea for a military commission to monitor disputes in and around the Yellow Sea 66 After his return from North Korea Richardson dealt with the issue of a pardon for William H Bonney aka Billy the Kid for killing Sheriff William J Brady of Lincoln County New Mexico some 130 years before Following up on the promise of a pardon at the time by then territorial governor Lew Wallace Richardson said he could not pardon Bonney posthumously because he did not want to second guess his predecessor s decision It was a very close call Richardson said The romanticism appealed to me to issue a pardon but the facts and the evidence did not support it 67 Richardson s second term in office ended in 2011 and he was term limited from further terms as governor 68 2008 presidential campaign EditMain article Bill Richardson 2008 presidential campaign See also 2008 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection Richardson campaigning in Elko Nevada July 2007 Richardson speaks during the final day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado Richardson was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential election but dropped out on January 10 2008 after lackluster showings in the first primary and caucus contests Despite his long history and friendship with the Clinton family Richardson endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination on March 21 2008 instead of Hillary Clinton 69 Commentator and Clinton ally James Carville compared Richardson to Judas Iscariot for the move 70 Richardson responded in a Washington Post article feeling compelled to defend himself against character assassination and baseless allegations 71 Richardson was a rumored vice presidential candidate for Senator and Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama and was fully vetted by the Obama campaign 72 before Obama chose Joe Biden on August 23 2008 73 Secretary of Commerce nomination EditSee also Confirmations of Barack Obama s CabinetFollowing Barack Obama s victory in the 2008 presidential election Richardson s name was frequently mentioned as a possible Cabinet appointment in the incoming Obama administration Most of this speculation surrounded the position of Secretary of State given Richardson s background as a diplomat 74 Richardson did not publicly comment on the speculation 75 Hillary Clinton was Obama s nominee for Secretary of State Richardson was also being considered for the position of Commerce Secretary On December 3 2008 Obama tapped Richardson for the post 76 On January 4 2009 Richardson withdrew his name as Commerce Secretary nominee because of the federal grand jury investigation into pay to play allegations 3 The New York Times had reported in late December that the grand jury investigation issue would be raised at Richardson s confirmation hearings 56 Later in August 2009 Justice Department officials decided not to seek indictments 77 Allegations of corruption EditAccording to his autobiography then United Nations Ambassador Bill Richardson was asked by the White House in 1997 to interview Monica Lewinsky for a job on his staff at the United Nations Richardson did so and later offered her a position which she declined 78 The American Spectator alleged that Richardson knew more about the Clinton Lewinsky scandal than he declared to the grand jury 79 In 2011 Richardson was under investigation for his role in alleged campaign finance violations A former member of Richardson s campaign claimed that during Richardson s 2008 presidential campaign Richardson and members of his campaign paid an unknown woman 250 000 to keep her from exposing an alleged affair they had in 2004 80 81 During the 2012 trial United States of America v Carollo Goldberg and Grimm the former CDR employee Doug Goldberg testified that he was involved in giving Bill Richardson campaign contributions amounting to 100 000 in exchange for his company CDR being hired to handle a 400 million swap deal for the New Mexico state government During his testimony Doug Goldberg stated that he had been given an envelope containing a check for 25 000 payable to Moving America Forward Bill Richardson s political action committee by his boss Stewart Wolmark and told to deliver it to Bill Richardson at a fund raiser When Goldberg handed the envelope to Richardson he allegedly told Goldberg to Tell the big guy Stewart Wolmark I m going to hire you guys Goldberg went on to testify that CDR was hired but that he later learned that another firm was hired by Richardson to perform the actual work required and that Stewart Wolmark had given Richardson a further 75 000 in contributions 82 In 2019 it was revealed that Richardson was among those named in court documents from a civil suit between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell The documents were unsealed on August 9 2019 a day before Epstein s suicide 83 84 Giuffre alleges that she was sexually trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to several high profile individuals including Richardson while she was underage in the early 2000s 85 83 2015 court documents that were unsealed in 2019 alleged Richardson s possible involvement with the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking ring which allegations he denied 86 A spokesperson for Richardson also denied the claims stating that he did not know Giuffre and had never seen Epstein in the presence of young or underage girls 85 Richardson released a statement in August 2019 saying he had offered his assistance in the investigation of Epstein to the U S Attorney for the Southern District of New York Richardson s attorney Jeff Brown of Dechert LLP later said that he was informed by the Assistant US Attorney that Richardson is neither a target subject nor witness in the case and that there is no allegation against Richardson that the government is actively investigating 87 Private diplomacy EditRichardson has visited North Korea a number of times and has been involved in negotiations with the leadership there since the early 1990s In 1996 he accompanied U S State Department officials and successfully negotiated the release of Evan Hunziker the first American civilian to be arrested by North Korea on espionage charges since the end of the Korean War In 2011 he was appointed as a special envoy for the Organization of American States 88 Richardson formed a foundation the Richardson Center to help negotiate the release of political prisoners globally 89 In January 2013 he led a delegation to North Korea of business leaders including Google chairman Eric Schmidt shortly after the state launched an orbital rocket 90 Richardson called the trip a private humanitarian mission by U S citizens He tried unsuccessfully to speak to North Korean officials about the detention of Kenneth Bae a U S citizen accused of committing hostile acts against the state and sought to visit him but was only able to deliver to authorities a letter from Bae s son 91 92 Bae was released in November 2014 In March 2016 at the request of Ohio Governor John Kasich Richardson attempted to negotiate for the release of Cincinnati college student Otto Warmbier who had been detained on a visit to North Korea 7 89 Warmbier was released in a vegetative state and later died in Cincinnati in June 2017 In November 2021 Richardson undertook a mission to Myanmar where he negotiated with military junta head Min Aung Hlaing and secured the release of U S journalist Danny Fenster from an 11 year prison sentence 93 94 8 Post gubernatorial career EditIn 2011 Richardson joined the boards of APCO Worldwide company Global Political Strategies as chairman 95 the World Resources Institute 96 the National Council for Science and the Environment 97 and Abengoa international advisory board 98 In 2012 Richardson joined the advisory board of Grow Energy and Refugees International He is a member of Washington D C based Western Hemisphere think tank the Inter American Dialogue 99 In December 2012 Richardson became chairman of the Board of Directors of Car Charging Group the largest independent owner and operator of public electric vehicle charging stations in the United States In 2013 Richardson joined the Board of Advisors for the Fuel Freedom Foundation 100 Publications EditBetween Worlds The Making of an American Life an autobiography published March 2005 by G P Putnam s Sons written with Michael Ruby ISBN 0399153241 Leading by Example How We Can Inspire an Energy and Security Revolution released October 2007 How to Sweet Talk a Shark Strategies and Stories from a Master Negotiator published October 15 2013 by Rodale Books written with Kevin Bleyer Universal Transparency A Goal for the U S at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit published January 2011 Arms Control Today Bill Richardson with Gay Dillingham Charles Streeper and Arjun Makhijani Sweeping Up Dirty Bombs published Fall 2011 Federation of American Scientists Bill Richardson Charles Streeper and Margarita SevcikSee also Edit Biography portal Politics portalElectoral history of Bill Richardson List of Hispanic Americans in the United States Congress List of minority governors and lieutenant governors in the United States Unsuccessful nominations to the Cabinet of the United States William BarloonReferences Edit Richardson Bill 1947 November 15 LC Linked Data Service Authorities and Vocabularies Library of Congress Retrieved October 21 2020 Crowley Candy Ed Hornick Kristi Keck Paul Steinhauser December 3 2008 Obama nominates Richardson for Cabinet CNN Archived from the original on December 16 2008 Retrieved December 14 2008 a b Richardson withdrawal leaves cabinet gap NBC News January 4 2009 Retrieved January 4 2009 Bill Richardson bows out of commerce secretary job CNN January 5 2009 Bill Richardson Withdraws as Commerce Secretary Designate Fox News January 4 2009 Archived from the original on May 4 2012 Retrieved December 10 2018 a b McKinley James September 11 2009 Gov Richardson s Future Is Again Talk of Santa Fe The New York Times Retrieved September 12 2009 a b Gladstone Rick March 16 2016 U S Troubleshooter Meets North Korea Diplomats on Detained American The New York Times 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