Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters after a information convention in New York in 2021.

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Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters after a information convention in New York in 2021.

Seth Wenig/AP

Bill Richardson, a former Democratic governor of New Mexico who went on to function the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died. He was 75.

Richardson died in his sleep at his house in Chatham, Mass., the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, a basis began by the previous governor, confirmed on Saturday.

“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,” Mickey Bergman, vice chairman of the Richardson Center, mentioned in an announcement. “The world has lost a champion for those held unjustly abroad and I have lost a mentor and a dear friend.”

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