Former New Mexico governor and U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson has died.
During the Clinton administration, he served as secretary of energy.
Richardson, 75, passed away in his sleep at his family's Cape Cod summer house.
A longtime fixture in Democratic Party politics, Richardson ran for president in 2008 but dropped out after the New Hampshire primary.
CNN has more:
“He lived his entire life in the service of others – including both his time in government and his subsequent career helping to free people held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. There was no person that Governor Richardson would not speak with if it held the promise of returning a person to freedom,” Mickey Bergman, vice president of the Richardson Center, said in a statement.
“The world has lost a champion for those held unjustly abroad and I have lost a mentor and a dear friend.”
Richardson began his political career in earnest as an aide to then-Massachusetts Rep. Frank Bradford Morse before becoming a staff member for the US State Department and Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1970s.
After an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 2008, Richardson launched the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, a non profit promoting international peace, in 2011.
Richardson is survived by his wife and daughter.
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RIH, senator…….
A Democrat? Lived his life in service to others?
Ummm, yeah CNN. Right.
It’s always a pleasure to hear of another Dem crossing the River Styx.