Question: What is the capital of the county containing the community of Lone Hickory in the state where John Kerry's running mate was a senator?

<P0-S0> Lone Hickory is an unincorporated community in southern Yadkin County, North Carolina west of Courtney. <P0-S1> It is located on Lone Hickory road, about a mile southeast of the road's west end at U.S. Route 21. <SEP> <P1-S0> the presidency of george w. bush began at noon est on january 20, 2001, when george w. bush was inaugurated as 43rd president of the united states, and ended on january 20, 2009. bush, a republican, took office following a very close victory over democratic incumbent vice president al gore in the 2000 presidential election. <P1-S1> four years later, in the 2004 election, he defeated democrat john kerry to win re-election. <P1-S2> bush, the 43rd president, is the eldest son of the 41st president, george h.w. <P1-S3> bush. <P1-S4> he was succeeded by democrat barack obama, who won the 2008 presidential election. <SEP> <P2-S0> kerry and his second wife, mozambican-born businesswoman and philanthropist maria teresa thierstein simões ferreira (known as teresa), the widow of kerry's late pennsylvania republican senate colleague henry john heinz iii, were introduced to each other by heinz at an earth day rally in 1990. early the following year, senator heinz was killed in a plane crash near lower merion. <P2-S1> teresa has three sons from her previous marriage to heinz, henry john heinz iv, andré thierstein heinz, and christopher drake heinz. <P2-S2> heinz and kerry were married on may 26, 1995, in nantucket, massachusetts. <SEP> <P3-S0> ), former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and retired Army General Wesley Clark. <P3-S1> His victory in the Iowa caucuses is widely believed to be the tipping point where Kerry revived his sagging campaign in New Hampshire and the February 3, 2004, primary states like Arizona, South Carolina and New Mexico. <P3-S2> Kerry then went on to win landslide victories in Nevada and Wisconsin. <P3-S3> In the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries, John Kerry defeated several Democratic rivals, including Sen. John Edwards (D-North Carolina. <P3-S4> Kerry thus won the Democratic nomination to run for President of the United States against incumbent George W. Bush. <P3-S5> On July 6, 2004, he announced his selection of John Edwards as his running mate. <P3-S6> Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, who was Kerry's 2004 campaign adviser, wrote an article in Time magazine claiming that after the election, Kerry had said that he wished he'd never picked Edwards, and that the two have since stopped speaking to each other. <P3-S7> In a subsequent appearance on ABC's This Week, Kerry refused to respond to Shrum's allegation, calling it a "ridiculous waste of time." <SEP> <P4-S0> The population was 2,818 at the 2000 census. <P4-S1> Yadkinville is a town in Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States. <P4-S2> Located in the Piedmont Triad, it is the county seat and largest city of Yadkin County. <SEP> <P5-S0> Days before Kerry announced Edwards as his running mate, Kerry gave a short list of three candidates: Sen John Edwards, Rep Dick Gephardt, and Gov Tom Vilsack. <P5-S1> Heading into the convention, the Kerry/Edwards ticket unveiled their new slogan—a promise to make America "stronger at home and more respected in the world." <P5-S2> Kerry made his Vietnam War experience the prominent theme of the convention. <P5-S3> In accepting the nomination, he began his speech with, "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty." <P5-S4> He later delivered what may have been the speech's most memorable line when he said, "the future doesn't belong to fear, it belongs to freedom", a quote that later appeared in a Kerry/Edwards television advertisement. <P5-S5> On July 6, John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate, shortly before the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, held later that month.