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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton will be among those paying homage to Bill Richardson during his funeral Mass

Friends and admirers of former Gov. Bill Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe, from mountain villages of northern New Mexico as a youthful congressman, to the United Nations and a litany of countries on unofficial diplomatic missions that often helped free imprisoned Americans

The late Bill Richardson had a long public life, including as a congressional baseball player. Roll Call was there over the years to capture his style.

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.