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Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is born 10 June 1953. Johnny Reid "John" Edwards is an American politician who was a U.S. senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2004 and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 and 2008. He defeated incumbent Republican Launch Faircloth of North Carolina from 1998 Senate election. Towards the end of his single six-year period, he sought the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 presidential election.

He attended Clemson University and transferred to North Carolina State University. Edwards graduated with high honors earning a bachelor's degree in textile technology in 1974 and later received his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law (UNC) with honors.




By law Edwards clerked for a federal judge, and in 1978 became an associate at the Nashville law firm of Dearborn and Ewing, doing primarily trial work, defending a Nashville bank and other commercial customers. The Edwards family returned to North Carolina in 1981, settling in the capital city of Raleigh, where he joined the firm Tharrington, Smith

and Hargrove.