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Bill Richardson is Making History as the First Viable Hispanic Presidential Candidate

May 21, 2007

Bill Richardson's Hispanic Heritage. Bill Richardson was born in Pasadena, California. His mother, the former Maria Luisa Lopez-Collada Márquez,[2] is Mexican. His father was William Blaine Richardson Jr., the son of Boston-born naturalist William Blaney Richardson (whose middle name changed from Blaney to Blaine when they moved to Nicaragua) and his Mexican wife, Rosaura Ojeda.

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The Best Foreign Relations Experience. As a congressman, he kept his interest in foreign relations. He visited Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Peru, India, North Korea, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Sudan to represent U.S. interests.

US Ambassador to the United Nations. In 1997, Clinton appointed Richardson as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Secretary of Energy. The Senate confirmed Richardson to be Clinton's Secretary of Energy on July 31, 1998.

Governor of New Mexico. Richardson was elected governor of New Mexico in November 2002. In 2006, Forbes credited Richardson's reforms in naming Albuquerque, New Mexico the best city in the U.S. for business and careers.

Negotiations with Foreign Dictators.

In 1995, he 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.
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.