John Edwards
| John Edwards | |
 | |
1999 - 2005 | |
| Party | Democrat |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Lauch Faircloth |
| Successor | Richard Burr |
| Born (e) | 10 June 1953 Seneca ( South Carolina ) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Edwards (1949-2010) |
| Religion | Methodism |
Johnny Reid Edwards said John Edwards (born 10 June 1953 in Seneca , South Carolina ) is a politician, American , member of the Democratic Party , a senator from North Carolina in the United States Congress from 1999 to 2005 , running mate -President of the United States in 2004 and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
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Biography
Family
Born into a modest family from South Carolina , John Edwards is the son of Wallace Reid Edwards and Catharine Juanita "Bobbie" Wade. After several moves, his family moved to Robbins , in North Carolina , where his father worked as a laborer in the textile industry, and his mother, who runs a trade in postal services between when her husband loses his job after 36-year career. First in his family to attend the University, Clemson and then to Chapel Hill , he made his fortune as an attorney may bring a lawsuit against the big corporations on behalf of aggrieved consumers, especially in relation to tobacco companies. At Chapel Hill, he met Elizabeth Anania, four years his senior, whom he married in the summer of 1977 and with whom he has four children: Wade in 1979, in 1982, Cate, Emma Claire and Jack in 1998 in 2000. John and Elizabeth split in early 2010 after John admits to having had a child out of wedlock. Elizabeth died of breast cancer at age 61 7 December 2010 Political Career So that nothing is predestined to politics, the death of her son Wade in a car accident in 1996, encouraged him to commit. He became senator of North Carolina in 1998 , defeating Republican incumbent, Lauch Faircloth. The legal talents of John Edwards are very helpful to the Democrats during the procedure impeachment against President Bill Clinton in 1998 - one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine , so it becomes influential within the party despite his lack of political experience. Thus, in 2000 , the Democratic Party candidate for president, Al Gore keeps him on the list of possible candidates for vice-presidency. In 2002, Edwards voted to send American troops in Iraq but in 2005 in an interview with Washington Post , he says he made error . In 2008, John Edwards calls for a complete withdrawal of troops . In 2003 , he launched himself into the primary race for the nomination of the Democratic candidate in the 2004 presidential election. If his campaign has not taken off, he made a breakthrough in the first primary, which takes place in the Iowa , and soon became the main adversary of the future Democratic nominee John Kerry. It eliminates dramatically favorites like Howard Dean and Joseph Lieberman. But a series of caucus states is terminated prematurely his short but successful campaign. Seeing the growing popularity of the young senator, the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, the means, in July 2004, as his running mate on the Democratic ticket. His speech condemning the "two Americas, one of the very rich and that of others", his fight against the abuses of large industrial groups, and its presence in the South, are assets for the Democratic candidate, who will, however, defeated by George W . Bush on November 2 , 2004. Having decided not to run again in his post as senator during the 2004 election, but to focus instead on the presidential election of 2008 , he finds himself, as from 3 January 2005 , no elected office, but remains a major rising stars of the Democratic Party. On 28 December 2006 , he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential election. In 2007, supported by a large number of American unions, he based his campaign in the primaries of his party in defending the interests of the working class against the financial powers . At the launch of the primaries, Thursday 3 January 2008 , he won 30% of the vote in caucuses in Iowa , behind Barack Obama (38%) but ahead of Hillary Clinton (29%). On January 27 , he ranks third in the primary in South Carolina , the state where it originated, with 18% of the vote, against 55% for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton 27% . Faced with this failure, which confirms those of New Hampshire and Nevada , he announced the 30 January 2008 , its withdrawal from the race for the White House , without its support to any of the other two Democratic candidates still in contention. Such a withdrawal would also be due to the health of his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, who suffers from incurable breast cancer . On May 14, 2008, he officially announces his support for Senator Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic nomination . On August 8, 2008, he admitted an affair adultery with a filmmaker 42 years, Rielle Hunter while his wife was being treated for breast cancer. Hunter says that Edwards is the father of her child born in February . Edwards challenged that assertion, indicating that their affair was over before Hunter's pregnancy, but he finally admitted, 21 January 2010, he was the father of the little Quinn . Primaries in 2004: Kerry's running mate
Primaries in 2008: the defeat and support for Obama
The relationship adultery
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