John Edwards | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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John Edwards


00:01:50 1 Early life and education
00:02:51 2 Legal career
00:08:11 3 Political career
00:08:20 3.1 Policy positions
00:09:52 3.2 Senate tenure
00:13:10 3.3 Post-Senate activities
00:17:11 4 Political campaigns
00:17:20 4.1 Electoral history
00:20:07 4.2 2004 presidential campaign
00:23:44 4.3 2004 vice presidential nomination
00:25:07 4.4 2008 presidential campaign
00:27:53 5 Personal life
00:28:02 5.1 Family
00:31:04 5.2 Residence
00:31:29 5.3 Extramarital affair
00:35:51 5.4 Indictment and trial
00:37:46 6 Return to law practice
00:38:20 7 Bibliography
00:39:01 8 See also



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Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.
Edwards defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election. Towards the end of his single six-year term, he sought the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2004 presidential election. He eventually became the 2004 Democratic candidate for vice president, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Following Kerry's loss to incumbent President George W. Bush, Edwards began working full-time at the One America Committee, a political action committee he established in 2001, 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.
A federal grand jury in North Carolina  indicted Edwards in 2011 on six felony charges of violating multiple federal campaign contribution laws to cover up an extramarital affair to which he admitted, following his 2008 campaign. Edwards was found not guilty on one count, and the judge declared a mistrial on the remaining five charges, as the jury was unable to come to an agreement. The Justice Department dropped the remaining charges and did not attempt to retry Edwards. Though it did not result in a criminal conviction, the revelation that Edwards had an extramarital affair and fathered a child while his wife, Elizabeth was dying of cancer gravely damaged his public image and ended his career in politics.