Blum died at the family home after a long battle with cancer, the senator's office said.
Richard Blum, a San Francisco businessman, philanthropist and the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, died late Sunday, the senator’s office announced Monday morning.
It was 6 a.m., and lanky Richard Blum was sipping coffee in the kitchen of his Presidio Terrace home and waiting a bit impatiently for his overnight guest, former President Jimmy Carter, to get off the phone so that they could begin their jog. “A lifelong San Franciscan, Richard was a powerful force for good in our city,” Pelosi said in a statement. “Building a successful career in business, he constantly gave back to our city: whether as a patron of our arts, a donor to our food banks or a benefactor to our efforts to end homelessness.”
Sen. Chris Coons said in a statement that he had long admired Blum’s commitment to issues in the Himalayas and across Asia, and noted that the Blum Center secured more than $650 million to address global poverty through its “Big Ideas” contest. Behind-the-scenes power broker Richard Blum compares his new job as chair of the UC Board of Regents to a corporate restructuring.published in the lead-up to Feinstein’s Senate run painted him as a well-connected man of many passions and interests.
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