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Eric Tucker | Associated Press

Bill Richardson, former UN ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies at 75

In this file photo taken on December 21, 2010, former New Mexico Governor and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson is seen talking to the media upon arriving at Beijing’s airport from North Korea, after a mission aimed at restoring calm following the North’s deadly bombardment of a South Korean island. (Getty)

WASHINGTON — Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and an American ambassador to the United Nations who also worked for years to secure the release of Americans detained by foreign adversaries, has died. He was 75.

The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which he founded and led, said in a statement Saturday that he died in his sleep at his home in Chatham, Massachusetts.

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