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[[Image:John Edwards 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[John Edwards]] participating in a [[New York Times]] panel discussion.]]Edwards was born on [[June 10]] [[1953]] to Wallace R. Edwards and Kathryn Juanita Wade in [[Seneca, South Carolina]]. The family moved several times during Edwards' childhood, eventually settling in [[Robbins, North Carolina]], where his father worked in a [[textile mill]] and his mother was a [[mail|postal employee]]. Edwards was the first person in his family to attend college. He first attended [[Clemson University]] and later transferred to [[North Carolina State University]]. |
[[Image:John Edwards 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[John Edwards]] participating in a [[New York Times]] panel discussion.]]Edwards was born on [[June 10]] [[1953]] to Wallace R. Edwards and Kathryn Juanita Wade in [[Seneca, South Carolina]]. The family moved several times during Edwards' childhood, eventually settling in [[Robbins, North Carolina]], where his father worked in a [[textile mill]] and his mother was a [[mail|postal employee]]. Edwards was the first person in his family to attend college. He first attended [[Clemson University]] and later transferred to [[North Carolina State University]]. |
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Edwards graduated with a [[bachelor's degree]] in textile technology in 1974 from North Carolina State University, and later earned his [[Juris Doctor|law degree]] from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], both with honors. While at UNC, he met fellow law student [[Elizabeth Anania Edwards|Elizabeth Anania]]. They married in 1977 and have four children. Their first two, Wade and [[Cate Edwards|Cate]], were born soon after John and Elizabeth's marriage. In 1996, their 16-year-old son, Wade, was killed in a car accident. Following Wade's death, Edwards and his wife chose to have children again: Emma Claire, born 1998, and Jack, born in 2000. The Associated Press has reported that the Edwardses' two youngest children were born with the help of surrogate mothers.[http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=213&sid=1007697&sidelines=1] |
Edwards graduated with a [[bachelor's degree]] in textile technology in 1974 from North Carolina State University, and later earned his [[Juris Doctor|law degree]] from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], both with honors. While at UNC, he met fellow law student [[Elizabeth Anania Edwards|Elizabeth Anania]]. They married in 1977 and have four children. Their first two, Wade and [[Cate Edwards|Cate]], were born soon after John and Elizabeth's marriage. In 1996, their 16-year-old son, Wade, was killed in a car accident. Following Wade's death, Edwards and his wife chose to have children again: Emma Claire, born 1998, and Jack, born in 2000. The Associated Press has reported that the Edwardses' two youngest children were born with the help of surrogate mothers.<ref>[http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=213&sid=1007697&sidelines=1]</ref> |
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The Edwards family now live in a 28,200 square feet mansion on a 102 acre estate in rural/suburban [[Orange County, North Carolina|Orange County]], in the [[Raleigh]]/[[Durham]]/[[Chapel Hill]] metro area, in North Carolina. The mansion is the county's largest and includes a basketball court, a squash court, two stages, a swimming pool, a four-story tower, and a room designated "John's Lounge." <ref>[http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20070130/news/local/20070130edwards.html Edwards' Nest Grist for Critics: New $6 Million Home]</ref> |
The Edwards family now live in a 28,200 square feet mansion on a 102 acre estate in rural/suburban [[Orange County, North Carolina|Orange County]], in the [[Raleigh]]/[[Durham]]/[[Chapel Hill]] metro area, in North Carolina. The mansion is the county's largest and includes a basketball court, a squash court, two stages, a swimming pool, a four-story tower, and a room designated "John's Lounge." <ref>[http://www.thepilot.com/stories/20070130/news/local/20070130edwards.html Edwards' Nest Grist for Critics: New $6 Million Home]</ref> |
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John Reid Edwards | |
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U.S. Senator, North Carolina | |
In office January 1999–January 2005 | |
Preceded by | Lauch Faircloth |
Succeeded by | Richard Burr |
Personal details | |
Nationality | American |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse | Elizabeth Edwards |
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953) was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. On December 27 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election.
Edwards was a trial lawyer before entering politics. He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election and during his six-year term sought the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election.
He eventually became the Democratic candidate for Vice President, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. After Edwards and Kerry lost the election to the incumbents George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Edwards formed the One America Committee and was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He was also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC.
Early life, education, and family
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Edwards was born on June 10 1953 to Wallace R. Edwards and Kathryn Juanita Wade in Seneca, South Carolina. The family moved several times during Edwards' childhood, eventually settling in Robbins, North Carolina, where his father worked in a textile mill and his mother was a postal employee. Edwards was the first person in his family to attend college. He first attended Clemson University and later transferred to North Carolina State University.
Edwards graduated with a bachelor's degree in textile technology in 1974 from North Carolina State University, and later earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, both with honors. While at UNC, he met fellow law student Elizabeth Anania. They married in 1977 and have four children. Their first two, Wade and Cate, were born soon after John and Elizabeth's marriage. In 1996, their 16-year-old son, Wade, was killed in a car accident. Following Wade's death, Edwards and his wife chose to have children again: Emma Claire, born 1998, and Jack, born in 2000. The Associated Press has reported that the Edwardses' two youngest children were born with the help of surrogate mothers.[1]
The Edwards family now live in a 28,200 square feet mansion on a 102 acre estate in rural/suburban Orange County, in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill metro area, in North Carolina. The mansion is the county's largest and includes a basketball court, a squash court, two stages, a swimming pool, a four-story tower, and a room designated "John's Lounge." [2]
Legal career
Both Edwards and his wife began private practice with law firms in Nashville, Tennessee. Edwards became an associate at the law firm of Dearborn & Ewing in 1978, doing primarily trial work, defending a Nashville bank and other corporate clients. The Edwards family (John, Elizabeth, and son Wade) returned to North Carolina in 1981, settling in the capital of Raleigh.
Before entering politics, Edwards was a personal injury trial attorney. He represented families and children, and specialized in corporate negligence and medical malpractice claims. Edwards made his personal fortune through his trial successes and his 2003 financial disclosure forms showed a total net worth between $12.8 and $60 million.[3] Edwards was criticized for paying himself mostly through subchapter S corporate dividends, rather than a salary, to take advantage of a tax-law loophole that allowed him to avoid paying $591,000 in Medicare taxes; Edwards claimed that he chose the subchapter S structure to protect his assets from liability.[4]
Edwards' first important case was a 1984 medical malpractice lawsuit. In that case, Edwards won a $3.7 million verdict on behalf of his client who suffered permanent brain and nerve damage after a doctor prescribed a drug overdose of anti-alcoholism drug Antabuse.[5] In 1985, Edwards obtained a $5.75 million settlement in a cerebral palsy case for medical malpractice during childbirth, representing Jennifer Campbell, a five-year-old cerebral palsy patient. This established the North Carolina precedent of physician and hospital liability for failing to determine if the patient understood risks of a particular procedure.[5] During the trial, it has been argued that Edwards relied more on his verbal skills as a trial lawyer than on actual science. While delivering his summary, Edwards said that "I have to tell you right now – I didn't plan to talk about this – right now I feel her [Jennifer], I feel her presence...[Jennifer's] inside me and she's talking to you."[6]
The biggest case of his legal career was a 1997 product liability lawsuit against Sta-Rite, the manufacturer of a defective pool drain cover. The case involved a Cary, North Carolina girl, Valerie Lakey, who was disemboweled by the suction power of the pool drain pump when she sat on an open pool drain whose protective cover other children at the pool had removed, after the swim club had failed to install the cover properly. Despite 12 prior suits with similar claims, Sta-Rite continued to make and sell drain covers lacking warnings. In his closing arguments, Edwards spoke to the jury for an hour and a half without referring to notes. It was an emotional appeal that made reference to his son, Wade, who had been killed shortly before testimony began in the trial. Mark Dayton, editor of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, would later call it "the most impressive legal performance I have ever seen."[7] The jury awarded the Lakeys $25 million, the largest personal injury award in North Carolina history. The company settled for the $25 million while the jury was deliberating punitive damages, rather than risk appeal. For their part in this case, Edwards and law partner David Kirby earned the Association of Trial Lawyers of America's national award for public service.[5]
In December 2003, during his presidential campaign, Edwards (with John Auchard) published Four Trials, a biographical book focusing on cases from his legal career.
Political career
Senate term
Both the success of the Lakey case and his son's death (Edwards had hoped his son would eventually join him in private law practice) prompted Edwards to leave the legal profession and seek public office. A Democrat, Edwards won election to the U.S. Senate in 1998 against incumbent Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth. Despite originally being the underdog, Edwards beat Faircloth by 51.2% to 47.0% - a margin of some 83,000 votes.
During President Bill Clinton's 1999 impeachment trial in the Senate, Edwards was responsible for the deposition of witnesses Monica Lewinsky and fellow Democrat Vernon Jordan.
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Edwards was reported to be on Democratic nominee Al Gore's vice presidential nominee "short list" (along with John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, Gore's eventual pick). In November 2000, People magazine named Edwards as its choice for the "sexiest politician alive."
Edwards served on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary.
During his Senate term Edwards co-sponsored 203 bills. He co-sponsored Lieberman's S.J.RES.46, the Iraq War Resolution, and also later voted for it in the full Senate to authorize the use of military force against Iraq. Edwards also supported and voted for the Patriot Act. Among other positions, Edwards generally supported abortion rights, affirmative action, and the death penalty. Among his first sponsored bills was the Fragile X Research Breakthrough Act of 1999.[8] He was also the first person to introduce comprehensive anti-spyware legislation with the Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act.[9] He also advocated rolling back the Bush administration's tax cuts and ending mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent offenders.[10]
Edwards supported the expansion of the H-1B visa program to increase the number of work visas for immigrant workers.[11] Edwards generally supported expanding legal immigration to the United States while working with Mexico to provide better border security and stop illegal trafficking.[10][12]
Before the 2004 Senate election, Edwards announced his retirement from the Senate and supported Erskine Bowles, former White House Chief of Staff, as the successor to his seat; Bowles, however, was defeated by Republican Richard Burr in the election.
2004 presidential campaign
Edwards unofficially began his presidential campaign as early as 2001, when he began to seek speaking engagements in Iowa, the site of the nation's first party caucuses. On January 2, 2003, he announced formation of an exploratory committee, allowing him to begin fundraising while not officially campaigning. On September 15, 2003, Edwards unofficially announced his intention to seek the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination, on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, thus fulfilling a promise he made as a guest during the show's coverage of the 2002 midterm elections. The next morning, Edwards made the announcement officially from his hometown. He declined to run for reelection to the Senate in 2004 in order to solely focus on his presidential run. Edwards' campaign was chaired by North Carolina Democratic activist Ed Turlington.
As Edwards had been building support for a presidential bid essentially since his election to the Senate, he led the initial campaign fundraising, amassing over $7 million during the first quarter of 2003, more than half of which came from individuals associated with the legal profession, particularly Edwards' fellow trial lawyers, their families, and employees.[13]
Edwards' campaign was often characterized by the American news media as populist.[14][15] His stump speech spoke of "two Americas", one composed of the wealthy and privileged, and the other of the hard-working common man.[16]
After campaigning for most of 2003, Edwards's campaign struggled to gain substantial support in the Democratic Party. In early 2004, weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Edwards began to gain momentum and poll numbers began to rise steadily. Edwards's late-stage momentum carried him into a surprising second place finish in Iowa with the support of 32% of caucus delegates, behind only John Kerry's 39% and ahead of former front-runner Howard Dean at 18%. Edwards finished with 12% support in the New Hampshire primary one week later, in fourth place behind Kerry, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark. The following week, during the February 3 primaries, Edwards won South Carolina's primary, lost to Clark in Oklahoma, and lost to Kerry in the other states. Edwards also garnered the second largest number of second place finishes, again falling behind Clark.[17]
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After Dean's withdrawal from the contest, Edwards became the only major challenger to Kerry for the Democratic nomination. He finished with 34% of the votes and second place to Kerry in the Wisconsin primary on February 17.
Edwards largely avoided attacking Kerry until a February 29, 2004 debate in New York, where he attempted to put Kerry on the defensive by characterizing the front-runner as a "Washington insider" and by mocking Kerry's plan to form a committee to examine trade agreements.
Edwards' campaign ended after a disappointing finish in the Super Tuesday primaries on March 2, when Kerry finished well ahead in nine of the 10 states voting that day. Edwards finished only slightly behind Kerry in Georgia, but, failing to win a single state, chose to withdraw from the presidential race. He announced his official withdrawal at a Raleigh, North Carolina press conference on March 3, 2004.
News of Edwards's withdrawal from the race made major media outlets relatively early on the evening of Super Tuesday, at about 6:30 p.m. CST, before polls had closed in California and before caucuses in Minnesota had even begun. This influenced many people in Minnesota to vote for other candidates, which may partially account for the strong showing of Dennis Kucinich in that state.[original research?] Edwards did win the presidential straw poll conducted by the Independence Party of Minnesota. He also later won the Democratic caucuses in his home state of North Carolina, making him the only Democratic candidate besides Kerry to win nominating contests in two states.
On July 6, 2004 Kerry announced, first in an email to his supporters and later in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that Edwards would be his vice presidential running mate. Kerry's decision was widely hailed by Democratic voters in public opinion polls and by Democratic leaders in interviews. According to sources close to Kerry, other individuals said to have been under consideration for the vice presidential nomination by the Kerry campaign were Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, Illinois Senator Richard Durbin, Florida Senator Bob Graham, Clark, and Congressman Richard Gephardt (the New York Post had incorrectly reported a day earlier that Kerry had decided on Gephardt for the running mate slot). Though Ralph Nader and many Democrats supported the nomination, others criticized Kerry because of Edwards' perceived lack of experience. In particular, the nomination caused the business community, including the Chamber of Commerce network, to throw its support to George W. Bush when they had been neutral in previous presidential elections, because of Edwards' opposition to tort reform.[18]
Campaign controversies
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Edwards was involved in two well-publicized controversies during the 2004 presidential election. One centered on a comment he made in Iowa in October 2004 concerning stem cell research:
If we can do the work that we can do in this country – the work we will do when John Kerry is president – people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.[19] [20] [21]
— John Edwards, October 10, 2004, campaign event in Iowa
The quote was later misquoted on the Drudge Report as: "When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."[22] Reacting to the misquote, conservative Washington Post columnist and Fox News Channel contributor Charles Krauthammer stated, "For Edwards to make the claims he did is the worst demagoguery I've heard in Washington in a quarter-century. To imply that Christopher Reeve was kept in the wheelchair because of the policies of the Bush administration on stem cells is ridiculous and insulting."[23] Progressive research and information center Media Matters have argued that when the entire quote is used "Edwards was premising 'people like Christopher Reeve' 'walk[ing] again' on the outcome of research that a Kerry administration would support."[19]
Another controversial moment took place on October 5, 2004 during a televised debate between Edwards and Vice President Dick Cheney. In response to a question regarding gay marriage, Edwards made a reference to Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary Cheney, saying:
I think the vice president and his wife love their daughter. I think they love her very much. And you can't have anything but respect for the fact that they're willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter, the fact that they embrace her. It's a wonderful thing. And there are millions of parents like that who love their children, who want their children to be happy.
— John Edwards, Vice Presidential debate
In response, Cheney replied "let me simply thank the senator for the kind words he said about my family and our daughter. I appreciate that very much."[24] A week later, Cheney pronounced himself "a pretty angry father" when Kerry answered the same question with a similar response.[25] While promoting her book two years later, Mary Cheney – who had been out of the closet for a decade and had been the lesbian/gay corporate relations manager for the Coors Brewing Company[26] – objected, stating she thought it was a "cheap and blatant political ploy on behalf of Senator Edwards."[27]
The Kerry/Edwards ticket lost the 2004 election. Edwards did receive one Electoral Vote for President (due to a faithless elector in Minnesota).
Post Senate activities
Edwards is a candidate for the 2008 U.S. presidential election; his concession speech at the close of the 2004 race hinted at his continued presidential ambitions: "You can be disappointed, but you cannot walk away. This fight has just begun." The following day, he announced that his wife Elizabeth had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Coincidentally, a few months earlier, in February 2004, doctors suggested that the distinctive mole on Edwards' upper lip might be developing cancerous properties; he had it removed, although it turned out to be benign.
During the months that followed Edwards was courted by a number of organizations; he told interviewer Larry King that he doubted he would return to his occupation as a trial lawyer and showed no interest in the possibility of becoming the Democratic National Committee chairman, a post sought by fellow nomination contender Howard Dean. He finally chose to accept an offer from his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of a part-time faculty position as director of a new "Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity" at the university. Shortly before the November 2004 election Edwards purchased a parcel of land in Orange County, where he now lives with his family.
In February 2005 Edwards headlined the "100 Club" Dinner, a major fundraiser for the New Hampshire Democratic Party. That same month, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced that he had been appointed as director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity in the university for studying ways to move people out of poverty. That fall, Edwards toured 10 major universities in order to promote "Opportunity Rocks!", a program aimed at getting youth involved in the fight against poverty. The Borgen Project has called Edwards one of the leading voices for the poor.
On March 21 2005, Edwards recorded his first podcast[28] with his wife. Several months later, in August, Edwards traveled to Waterloo, Iowa to deliver an address to the state's chapter of the AFL-CIO, a potential key supporter in the Iowa caucus. In the following month Edwards sent an email to his supporters and announced that he opposed the nomination of Judge John Roberts to become Chief Justice of the United States. He was also opposed to the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito.
In 2005 Edwards joined the Wall Street investment firm Fortress Investment Group as a senior adviser.[29]
During the summer and fall of 2005, he toured the country, promoting various progressive causes. He visited homeless shelters and job training centers and spoke at events organized by such groups as ACORN, the NAACP, and the SEIU. He spoke out in favor of an expansion of the earned income tax credit, a crackdown on predatory lending, an increase in the capital gains tax rate, housing vouchers for minorities to integrate upper-income neighborhoods, and a program modeled on the Works Progress Administration to rehabilitate the Gulf Coast following the effects of Hurricane Katrina. In low-income Greene County, North Carolina he unveiled the pilot program for College for Everyone, an educational measure he promised during his presidential campaign, in which prospective college students will receive a scholarship for their first year in exchange for ten hours of work a week.
On November 14, 2005 he wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he expressed regret for his vote supporting the Iraq War in 2002, and discussed three solutions for success in the conflict.[30]
Edwards is co-chairman of a Council on Foreign Relations task force on United States-Russia relations alongside Republican Jack Kemp, a former congressman, Cabinet official, and vice presidential nominee. On April 6, 2006, Edwards joined Ted Kennedy at a rally for raising the minimum wage.[31]
Mr. Edwards announced his presidential candidacy for 2008 on December 27, 2006. Though he was expected to announce it a day later, his campaign Web site was accidentally launched a day early.
2008 presidential campaign
On December 27 2006, Edwards's campaign website accidentally released that Edwards would be entering the 2008 Presidential election when it went live for a short time one day prior to Edwards's planned announcement in the Eastern New Orleans area of New Orleans.[32] He also inadvertently released his campaign slogan early as well: "Tomorrow begins today."[33] This ended months of speculation about whether or not Edwards would make a second run for President. On December 28 2006, Edwards officially announced his candidacy for President in the 2008 election.[34]
The most recent national polls show Edwards placing third among the Democratic field, behind Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama.[35] On January 17, Zogby released a poll among Iowa voters showing that Edwards leads one-term Illinois Senator Barack Obama with 27% to 17%.[36] Another Zogby poll conducted in New Hampshire showed Edwards along with Clinton losing 4 points on Obama with 23%.[37]
Edwards's campaign has stated that its main focus is on eliminating poverty, fighting global warming, and providing universal health care.[38] These goals reflect the more progressive campaign Edwards is running compared to his 2004 campaign when he did not focus on global warming and universal health care as issues. One of Edwards's most notable policy opinions since announcing his candidacy has been denouncing a troop surge in Iraq, coining it the McCain Doctrine.[39] Edwards has said that he is not ready to take a position on the issue of same-sex marriage, stating that he is "just not there yet".[40] In 2004, Edwards stated that he was opposed to same-sex marriage, although he also opposed a Constitutional amendment against it, saying the issue should be left to individual states to decide.[41][42] Edwards does now offer support for civil unions and partnership benefits.[40] In 2004, Edwards expressed reservations about civil unions, saying that he did not think the country was ready for it and that it should be left up to the states.[43][41]
David Bonior, a former House Democratic Whip from Michigan, is serving as Edwards' campaign manager. Bonior brings strong relationships with organized labor, as well as expereince in grassroots campaigning.[44] Kate Michelman, a nationally prominent abortion rights activist and former leader of NARAL, has joined the campaign as a senior adviser, charged with outreach to women.[45]
On January 14, 2007 Edwards spoke at New York City's Riverside Church where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his April 4, 1967 anti-war Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence speech. In the speech Edwards made an implicit criticism against Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and criticized silence on the "escalation of the war in Iraq." In the speech he also spoke on AIDS in Africa, energy independence and the impending increase in the minimum wage.[46] On January 30, 2007 Edwards hired Amanda Marcotte, who also runs the liberal daily weblog Pandagon, to be the new “Blogmaster” on Edwards’ presidential weblog .[47]
Electoral history
- 2004 Race for U.S. President
- George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (R) (inc.), 51% (286 electoral votes)
- John Kerry/John Edwards (D), 48% (251 electoral votes)
- John Edwards (D), 0% (1 electoral vote)
- Others, 1% (0 electoral votes)
- 1998 General election for United States Senate
- John Edwards (D), 51%
- Lauch Faircloth (R), 47%
- Others, 2%
Bibliography
- Four Trials (with John Auchard) (New York: Simon and Shuster, 2003) ISBN-10: 0743244974
- Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives (New York: Collins, 2006) ISBN-10: 0060884541
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- ^ http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/US/TheNote_May12.html
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