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John Reid Edwards
United States Senator
from North Carolina
In office
January 6, 1999–January 3, 2005
Preceded byLauch Faircloth
Succeeded byRichard Burr
Personal details
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseElizabeth Edwards
ProfessionAttorney, Politician
Signature

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

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 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, who is four years his senior. They married in the summer of 1977 and have four children. Their son, Wade, was born in 1979 and daughter Cate followed in 1982. In 1996, Wade, age 16, was killed in a car accident when strong winds swept his Jeep off a North Carolina highway. Following Wade's death, Edwards and his wife chose to have children again: Emma Claire, born 1998, and Jack, born in 2000. The Edwards family now live on a secluded 102 acre estate in rural/suburban Orange County, in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill metro area, in North Carolina.

On November 3, 2004, the day Kerry and Edwards conceded defeat in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was treated via chemotherapy and radiotherapy,[1] and has continued to remain an activist for women, cancer patients, the Democratic Party, and her husband's One America Committee. On March 22, 2007, the Edwards announced that her cancer had returned to her rib, but that she was asymptomatic and expected to continue her activities in his Presidential campaign while being treated.[2][3]

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Four Trials by John Edwards

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.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] 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.[6] 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."[7]

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 Raleigh, 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."[8] 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.[6]

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

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Senator John Edwards

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.[9] He was also the first person to introduce comprehensive anti-spyware legislation with the Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act.[10] He also advocated rolling back the Bush administration's tax cuts and ending mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent offenders.[11]

Edwards supported the expansion of the H-1B visa program to increase the number of work visas for immigrant workers.[12] Edwards generally supported expanding legal immigration to the United States while working with Mexico to provide better border security and stop illegal trafficking.[11][13]

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

Main articles: United States presidential election, 2004 and John Kerry presidential campaign, 2004

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.[14]

Edwards' campaign was often characterized by the American news media as populist.[15][16] His stump speech spoke of "two Americas", one composed of the wealthy and privileged, and the other of the hard-working common man.[17]

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.[18]

Edwards on the campaign trail in 2004.

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.

2004 Vice Presidential nomination and campaign

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.[19]

The highlight of Edwards'campaign for the vice presidency was the debate with incumbent Dick Cheney, in which the Vice President blindsided Edwards with the false charge that they had never met before, and blamed this on Edwards' frequent absences from the Senate to campaign for the Presidency. While the media found several videotapes of Cheney/Edwards meetings, Edwards' initial response is believed to have hurt the Kerry/Edwards campaign.

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.

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Senator Edwards and Prime Minister Tony Blair

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.

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Senator Edwards and former Congressman Kemp in the Red Square

On March 21 2005, Edwards recorded his first podcast[20] 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.[21]

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Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kennedy campaigning for raise of minimum wage

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.[22] Previously, Edwards had defended his vote. In an October 10, 2004 appearance on Meet the Press, Edwards told Tim Russert "I would have voted for the resolution knowing what I know today, because it was the right thing to do to give the president the authority to confront Saddam Hussein...I think Saddam Hussein was a very serious threat. I stand by that, and that's why [John Kerry and I] stand behind our vote on the resolution."[23] In a February 4, 2007 appearance on Meet the Press, Edwards told Russert "over time, when I reflected on what I thought was going to be necessary going forward, to have some moral foundation to work on issues like poverty and genocide, things that I care deeply about, I could no longer defend this vote. It was pretty simple. And I got to the place I felt like I had to say it and had to say it publicly. And so—what?--a year—a year or so ago I did that."[24]

Edwards was co-chair 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.[25] The task force issued its report in March 2006.[26] On July 12, the International Herald Tribune published a related op-ed by Edwards and Kemp.[27]

On April 6, 2006, Edwards joined Ted Kennedy at a rally for raising the minimum wage.[28]

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

Main article: United States presidential election, 2008
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John Edwards 2008

On December 27 2006, Edwards' 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.[29] He also inadvertently released his campaign slogan early as well: "Tomorrow begins today."[30] 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.[31]

The most recent national polls show Edwards placing third among the Democratic field, behind Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama,.[32] However, taking second place in how many states he carries, ahead of Obama but behind Clinton by 22 states. On January 17, Zogby released a poll among Iowa voters showing that Edwards leads one-term Illinois Senator Barack Obama with 27% to 17%.[33] Another Zogby poll conducted in New Hampshire showed Edwards along with Clinton losing 4 points on Obama with 23%.[34]

Edwards's campaign has stated that its main focus is on eliminating poverty, fighting global warming, and providing universal health care.[35] 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.[36] 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".[37] 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.[38][39] Edwards does now offer support for civil unions and partnership benefits.[37] 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.[40][38]

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 experience in grassroots campaigning.[41] 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.[42]

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 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.[43]

On March 2, Ann Coulter used the epithet "faggot" in what she claimed afterward was meant as a one-liner joke about presidential candidate Edwards, a remark for which she was criticized by pundits on the left and the right.[44] Edwards responded to Coulter's remark, saying: "I think it's important that we not reward hateful, selfish, childish behavior with attention..."[45].

Wife's medical condition

At a press conference on March 22, John and his wife, Elizabeth, announced that she has stage IV breast cancer[46], a condition that has a 20% survival rate past 5 years.[47] They stated that the cancer was "no longer curable, but is completely treatable."[48][49] Furthermore, they also announced that the campaign was continuing full steam, and there would be no suspension of the campaign despite erroneous media speculation to that effect after the press conference was scheduled.[50] Mrs. Edwards further noted a positive outlook on life when she stated that she plans to campaign with her husband. Former Senator Edwards, for his part, stated that he would take an occasional break from campaigning when his wife requires treatment, but said "The campaign goes on, The campaign goes on strongly." [2]

Allegations of anti-Catholicism by staff bloggers

On January 30, 2007 Edwards hired Amanda Marcotte, who also contributes to the liberal weblog Pandagon, to be the new “Blogmaster” on Edwards’ presidential weblog.[51] Edwards had also hired blogger Melissa McEwan to work with Marcotte. In early February 2007, William Donohue of the Catholic League cited past allegedly anti-Catholic comments on Marcotte and McEwan's respective blogs and called on Edwards to fire the bloggers.[52] He cited Marcotte references to the church's opposition to birth control saying it forces women "to bear more tithing Catholics". He also cited another posting called "Pope and Fascists", and to another describing President Bush's "wingnut Christofacist base". Donohue called the statements "incendiary, it's inflammatory. It's scurrilous and has no place being part of someone's resume who's going to work for a potential presidential contender."

On February 7, 2007, Salon.com incorrectly reported that the Edwards 2008 bloggers had been fired.[53] However, the Edwards campaign released a statement on February 8, saying "that kind of intolerant language will not be permitted from anyone on my campaign, whether it’s intended as satire, humor or anything else." The statement went on to say that "I also believe in giving everyone a fair shake".[54] Marcotte and McEwan also released statements, with Marcotte claiming her statements about religion "are generally satirical in nature."[55][56] On February 12, Marcotte resigned from the campaign, saying that she could not "do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue doesn’t have anything better to do with his time than harass me".[57]

Universal healthcare

On February 5, 2007, Edwards unveiled his plan for universal health care.[58] The plan subsidizes health insurance purchases for poorer Americans, and requires employers to offer health insurance through the Medicare system as one option for their workers. Since Medicare has lower administrative costs -- under 4%, versus 20% or more for many HMOs[59] -- Edwards believes that individuals will be able to save on health care by using the public option. While it is not a single-payer plan, the plan states that "over time, the system may evolve toward a single-payer approach if individuals and businesses prefer the public plan." and make Medicare the defacto national health program.

Edwards said "The bottom line is we're asking everybody to share in the responsibility of making health care work in this country. Employers, those who are in the medical insurance business, employees, the American people — everyone will have to contribute in order to make this work."[24] In contrast, he also has said that the cost of the plan would be paid for by eliminating previous passed tax cuts for people earning more than US$200,000 per year.[24]

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

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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  38. ^ a b "John Edwards on Civil Rights". On the Issues. 2004. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
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  43. ^ Edwards echoes King's anti-war message, Associated Press, January 15, 2007.
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  59. ^ "National Health Insurance Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending". Annals of Internal Medicine).
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