Bill Richardson is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 15, 1947 in Pasadena, California, United States. Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and politician from New Mexico, who served the state as its Governor from 2003 to 2011. He made an unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination for the presidency.
He was appointed as the US Ambassador to the United Nations in 1997 by President Bill Clinton, who also appointed him Secretary of Energy in 1998.
Richardson received his B.A. from the University of Winnipeg in 1976. After spending a year in Montpellier, he moved to Vancouver, where he completed a Master of Library Science at the University of British Columbia. He received an honorary doctorate from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, June 2017.
He was a long-time broadcaster on CBC Radio One, beginning in 1992 as a regular contributor and guest host on Vicki Gabereau’s show. When Gabereau left to host a television show on CTV, Richardson moved over to CBC Radio Two to host As You Like It, a classical music request show. In 1997 he returned to CBC Radio One to become host of Richardson’s Roundup.
His wife, Barbara, formed New Mexico Immunizations Coalition in 2003.
