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15 unusual facts about John Edwards


Crawford County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.61 percent of the vote in Crawford County.

Franklin County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin County.

Harry Huge

During the 2007-08 presidential campaign, Huge made contributions first to John Edwards (Q1/2007), then to Hillary Clinton(Q4/2007), then to John McCain(Q3/2008).

Ian Parrott

1977, John Edwards Memorial Award from the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music;

Jacob Hacker

He was widely recognized as a contributor to the health care plans for three of the leading Democratic candidates — Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John Edwards — in the presidential election of 2008.

John Edwards-Vaughan

Their daughter Jessie married his fellow MP at Wells, John Lee Lee and their son Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee was sat as an MP after serving in the Crimean War.

Johnny Edwards

John Edwards (born 1953), American politician from North Carolina

Jose Ceballos

Ceballos graduated from Florida State University in 1991, and ran campaign operations for vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.

Louis Uchitelle

Recently, Uchitelle moderated a "Times Talk" panel discussion with John Edwards, Barbara Ehrenreich, Stephen Moore and Katherine Newman entitled "American Middle Class: At Risk?"

Nadia Townsend

She also starred in Fireflies for the ABC working under the widely respected executive producer John Edwards.

Regena Thomas

Thomas said she did any political work in her spare time and in 2004 she took a multimonth leave of absence to "recharge her batteries." Thomas also spent part of this leave working on the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

Sabu Toyozumi

In 2005 British improvising guitarist and promoter John Russell arranged a two-day event dedicated to Toyozumi in which the drummer performed in different groupings with 14 musicians from the London improvised music scene including, most notably, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Phil Minton, John Edwards and Steve Beresford.

Southern Village, North Carolina

-- confirmed still in that location as of 04/10/10 -->a Google office, and housed the headquarters for the John Edwards for President Campaign of 2007.

Stone County, Missouri

Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-North Carolina) still received 2.16 percent of the vote in Stone County.

Thomas Shea

In 2004, he was the Florida campaign director for the Democratic national ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards.


Game Change

Game Change also included details of John Edwards's affair with Rielle Hunter, and his handling of it before it was made public.

Living History

This is not unusual for political autobiographies, but in the same period some other political figures were given co-writing credit, as for instance fellow Senator John Edwards gave to writer John Auchard on his book Four Trials and fellow Senator John McCain gave to administrative assistant Mark Salter on his books Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, and Character Is Destiny.

Lori Geary

Lori started her first reporting job at WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia where she was quickly promoted to noon anchor and later moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where she covered politics and conducted some memorable interviews with Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole, and John Edwards.

Margin of error

According to an October 2, 2004 survey by Newsweek, 47% of registered voters would vote for John Kerry/John Edwards if the election were held on that day, 45% would vote for George W. Bush/Dick Cheney, and 2% would vote for Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo.

Mini-Tuesday

The Democratic primaries and caucuses were contested between retired General Wesley Clark of Arkansas, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, and the Reverend Al Sharpton of New York.

Sign war

Nationally, in August 2007, Democrat presidential hopefuls John Edwards and Barack Obama each claimed victory for his side in the sign war that occurred at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Ulitzer

Among the individuals Ulitzer claimed had contributed original articles are; Bill Joy, Bob Balaban, Brad Templeton, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Perens, Christopher Lambert, David Weber, Eric S. Raymond, James Gosling, John Edwards, Ken Thompson, Larry Ellison, Rob Malda, and Tim O'Reilly.

Winning New Hampshire

Filmmakers Aram Fischer, Mark Lynch and Will Rabbe tracked candidates Wesley Clark, Joseph Lieberman, John Edwards, Howard Dean and John Kerry as they campaigned vigorously throughout the state.