Democrat from New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson is the governor of New Mexico, elected to that job in 2002. 
He was born in Pasadena, Calif. in 1947 and spent his youth in Mexico City and Massachusetts. He graduated from Tufts University. He was elected to Congress from New Mexico in 1982 and held the seat until joining the Clinton administration in 1997. He served as ambassador to the United Nations and later became Clinton's Secretary of Energy. Richardson and his wife, Barbara Flavin Richardson, have no children.
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