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==William Blaine Richardson III==
Bill Richardson was born 15 Nov 1947 in Pasadena, [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]], [[California]], the son of William Blaine Richardson, Jr by his wife Maria Luisa Lopez-Collada Marquez.

In 1972, Bill married Barbara Flavin.  He was elected, as a Democrat, to the Ninety-eight congress in 1982, and served in that position until he resigned in 1997.  United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1997-98; Secretary of Energy 1998-2001.

He is currently the Governor of New Mexico, and ran on the Democratic ticket for the US Presidential Election of 2008.  His Democratic challengers were: [[Hillary Diane Rodham|Hillary Clinton]], [[Christopher Dodd]], [[John Edwards]], [[Dennis Kucinich]], [[Barack Obama]], [[Joseph Biden|Joe Biden]], and [[Mike Gravel]].

===Primary sources for 1===
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&tips=0&f2=William&f1=Richardson&sx=&f9=&f5=&f4=&rg_f3__date=1947&rs_f3__date=0&f6=&f7=&gskw=&prox=1&db=cabirth1905&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=3&recid=18456569&recoff=1+3 California Birth Index] showing : "William Blaine Richardson, born 15 Nov 1947 Los Angeles County, mother's maiden name Lopezcollada (sic)"
*[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7488&iid=NYT715_8378-0793&fn=William+Blaine&ln=Richardson&st=r&ssrc=&pid=3031197353 ''New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957''] showing : "In-bound passengers, First class, from Gibralter 9 Oct 1953 on the SS Independence arriving at New York 15 Oct 1953; Richardson, William Blaine (USC) Nicaraguan documents, 9 pieces of luggage; Maria Luisa L Collada Richardson, Mexican documents; William Blaine Richardson Jr, son, California documents"

===Secondary sources for 1===
*[http://www.richardsonforpresident.com/ Richardson for President] website
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson "Bill Richardson"] on Wikipedia
*[http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html "Ancestry of Gov. Bill Richardson], compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner
*[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=USCongress%2c&rank=0&tips=0&=%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c%2c&gsfn=Blaine&gsln=Richardson&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=0&recid=9185&recoff=21+22 "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005", "William Blaine Richardson"]
*[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=gdtrowbridge&id=I14181 Ancestral World Tree, "Pedigree of Bill Richardson"], Geoff Trowbridge
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=TvIpzZNzxC4C&pg=PA110&dq=%22William+B+Richardson%22&sig=cafhn-sv1mhNLMDGL5mIdVCD4eQ "The Selling of Free Trade: NAFTA, Washington and the subversion of American democracy"], by John R MacArthur. Page 110 : In speaking of Bill Richardson, "His father, William B, a native of Boston, had opened the Mexico City branch of the National City Bank (now Citibank) in 1929 &mdash; the first US bank to found a branch in Mexico &mdash; and had run it until his retirement in 1956.  In 1938, after Mexico took the radical step of nationalizing its oil business (which included expropriating significant US oil holdings), Citibank alone among foreign banks remained in the country, which made William B Richardson a very important American in Mexico.  He helped to start Mexico City College (the predecessor to Pan American University), and he was president of the American Chamber of Commerce.  He advised major Mexican corporations like Bancomer and the restaurant and retail chain Sanborns.  In the 1930s he married a Mexican named Maria Luisa L C de Zubiran, who worked as a secretary in the Mexico City office of National City Bank.  She still lives in Mexico City today."