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William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is an American politician who was 30th Governor of New Mexico, from 2003 to 2011. He was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy Secretary in the Clinton administration and has also served as a U.S. Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. In December 2008, he was nominated for the cabinet-level position of Commerce Secretary in the first Obama administration but withdrew a month later as he was investigated for possibly improper business dealings in New Mexico.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Richardson withdraws as Commerce nominee )〕 Although the investigation was later dropped, it was seen to have damaged Richardson's career, as his second and final term as New Mexico governor concluded. ==Early life and education== Bill Richardson was born in Pasadena, California.〔〔 His father, William Blaine Richardson, Jr. (1891-1972), who was half Anglo-American and half Mexican, was an American Citibank executive〔〔 who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and lived and worked in Mexico City.〔 His mother, María Luisa López-Collada Márquez (1914-2011),〔 was the Mexican-born daughter of a Spanish father from Villaviciosa, Asturias and a Mexican mother,〔〔 and had been his father's secretary.〔 Richardson's father was born on a ship heading towards Nicaragua.〔 Just before Bill Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because, as Richardson explained, "My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States." Richardson, a U.S. citizen by birthright, spent his childhood in Mexico City〔〔 and was raised Roman Catholic. When Richardson was 13, his parents sent him to Massachusetts to attend a preparatory school, Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, where he played baseball as a pitcher.〔 He entered Tufts University〔 in 1966 where he continued to play baseball. Richardson is a descendant of William Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower.〔Ancestry of Bill Richardson. Wargs.com http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html Accessed April 10, 2015〕 Richardson's original biographies stated he had been drafted by the Kansas City Athletics and the Chicago Cubs to play professional baseball, but a 2005 ''Albuquerque Journal'' investigation discovered he never was on any official draft. Richardson acknowledged the error, which he claimed was unintentional, saying he had been scouted by several teams and told that he "would or could" be drafted, but was mistaken in saying that he actually had been drafted. In 1967, he pitched in the amateur Cape Cod Baseball League for the Cotuit Kettleers in Cotuit, Massachusetts. A Kettleers program included the words "Drafted by K.C." Information which, according to the investigation, was generally provided by the players or their college coaches. Richardson said: He earned a Bachelor's degree at Tufts University in 1970, majoring in French and political science, and was a member and president of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He earned a master's degree in international affairs from Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1971. He had met his future wife, Barbara Flavin, in high school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Richardson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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