Elizabeth Edwards
Reno, Nevada, July 15, 2007
Born	July 3, 1949 (1949-07-03) (age 58) Jacksonville, Florida
Spouse	John Edwards
Children	Wade (deceased), Cate, Emma Claire, and Jack

Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (born July 3, 1949, in Jacksonville, Florida) is an attorney. She is married to John Edwards who is a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee and is a 2008 Democratic Party presidential candidate. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 456 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1290 × 1695 pixel, file size: 488 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Nickname: Motto: Where Florida Begins Location in the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country United States State Florida County Duval Government  - Mayor John Peyton (R) Area  - City  885 sq mi (2,264. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ... Johnny Reid John Edwards[1] (born June 10, 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. ... Catharine Elizabeth Cate Edwards (born 4 March 1982) is the oldest daughter of John Edwards, the United States Democratic Partys 2004 nominee for Vice President and Elizabeth Anania Edwards. ... is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Nickname: Motto: Where Florida Begins Location in the state of Florida Coordinates: , Country United States State Florida County Duval Government  - Mayor John Peyton (R) Area  - City  885 sq mi (2,264. ... Johnny Reid John Edwards[1] (born June 10, 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic... Seal of the office of the Vice-President of the United States The Vice President of the United States is the first in the presidential line of succession, becoming the new President of the United States upon the death, resignation, or removal of the President. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Education and family

Mary Elizabeth Anania spent some of her childhood attending school in Japan, where her father, an Italian-American United States Navy pilot, was stationed. An Italian American is an American of Italian descent. ... USN redirects here. ...

She attended Mary Washington College and then transferred to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill receiving an undergraduate degree and completing three years of graduate work in English, as well as earning a J.D. at the same institution. She met John Edwards when they were both law students there. They married on July 30, 1977. The Edwards are the parents of four children: Wade, Catharine, Emma Claire, and Jack. Wade was killed in April 1996 when he lost control of the Jeep he was driving from his Raleigh home to the family's beach house near Wilmington.^[1] Following Wade's death, Edwards and her husband chose to have children again: Emma Claire, born in 1998, and Jack, born in 2000. Edwards was pregnant with Emma Claire during her husband's 1998 Senate race. Emma Claire and Jack were born in Chapel Hill, where the family now resides. The University of Mary Washington is a coeducational, state-funded, four-year liberal arts college in Fredericksburg, Virginia about 55 miles north of Richmond and 50 miles south of Washington, DC. The universitys undergraduate campus has about 4,000 students and its graduate campus has about 1,000 degree... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Look up Graduate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology... J.D. redirects here; for alternate uses, see J.D. (disambiguation) J.D. is an abbreviation for the Latin Juris Doctor, also called a Doctor of Law or Doctorate of Jurisprudence, and is the law degree typically awarded by an accredited U.S. law school after successfully completing three years... is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Catharine Elizabeth Cate Edwards (born 4 March 1982) is the oldest daughter of John Edwards, the United States Democratic Partys 2004 nominee for Vice President and Elizabeth Anania Edwards. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Nickname: Motto: You Can See the Whole State from Here Map of Wake County, North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States State North Carolina County Wake County Founded 1792 Government  - Mayor Charles Meeker (D) Area  - City  134. ... Wilmington is a city in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. ... Nickname: Location in North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States State North Carolina Counties Orange, Durham, and Chatham Founded 1793 Government  - Mayor Kevin C. Foy Area  - City  19. ...

Professional life

She began her career as a law clerk for a federal judge, then moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1978 to become an associate at the law firm of Harwell Barr Martin & Sloan. In 1981, she and her husband moved their family to Raleigh to work at the law firm Merriman, Nicholls, and Crampton. She used her maiden name professionally until 1996,^[2] when she retired from legal practice upon the death of her son and changed her name to Elizabeth Edwards. Much of her time since leaving legal practice has been devoted to the administration of the Wade Edwards Foundation^[3]. She has taught legal writing as an adjunct instructor at the law school of the University of North Carolina and worked as a substitute teacher in the Wake County Public Schools. Nickname: Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: , Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806 Government  - Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area  - City  526. ... The University of North Carolina is a sixteen-university system which comprises all public four-year universities in North Carolina, United States. ...

Political activities

During much of 2004, Edwards joined her husband and United States Democratic Presidential nominee Senator John Kerry on the nationwide campaign trail. She has taken a similar role in her husband's 2008 presidential bid, and is considered one of his closest advisers. Each state elects two senators to the United States Senate. ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in his fourth term of office. ...

Breast cancer

On November 3, 2004, the day Kerry and Edwards conceded defeat in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer. She later revealed that she discovered a lump in her breast while on a campaign stop in Kenosha, Wisconsin a few weeks earlier, in the midst of the campaign. Edwards was treated and has continued to remain an activist for women's health and cancer patients. In a November 2006 comment on the Daily Kos website, Edwards stated that on her last visit, her oncologist said that cancer was not one of the things going on in her life.^[4] is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Presidential election results map. ... Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ... Nickname: K-town Keno Kenowhere Location of Kenosha within Wisconsin Coordinates: Country United States State Wisconsin Counties Kenosha Settled 1836 Government  - Mayor John M. Antaramian Population  - City 96,845  - Density  3,795. ... Daily Kos (IPA: ) is an American political blog, publishing news and opinion from a liberal point of view. ... Oncology is the branch of medicine that studies tumors (cancer) and seeks to understand their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. ...

In September 2006, Edwards released a book, Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers,^[5] focusing on the death of her son and her battle with breast cancer.

At a March 22, 2007 press conference,^[6] John and Elizabeth Edwards announced that her cancer had returned, and that his campaign for the Presidency was continuing at full steam. They said that she is asymptomatic, and that she expects to continuine actively campaigning while undergoing treatment. ^[7] Her doctor, Dr. Lisa Carey of the University of North Carolina's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, described the diagnosis as stage IV (metastatic) breast cancer with a spot in her rib and possibly her lung. In a March 25 interview on 60 Minutes, Edwards said that there was also a spot in her hip found on her bone scan. ^[8] The Edwardses and Dr. Carey stressed that the cancer is not curable, but is treatable.^{[6] [9]} As of April 2, 2007 Edwards was informed that her cancer may be treatable with anti-estrogen drugs. "I consider that a good sign. It means there are more medications which I can expect to be responsive," she told the Associated Press during a campaign stop with her husband in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ^[10] is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Metastasis (Greek: change of the state) is the spread of cancer from its primary site to other places in the body. ... Human respiratory system The lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity. ... Not to be confused with a BBC news magazine program of the same name. ... Estriol. ... The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the worlds largest such organization. ... Nickname: Location in the State of Iowa Coordinates: , Country United States State Iowa County Linn County Incorporated 1849 Government  - Mayor Kay Halloran Area  - City  64. ...

References

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Footnotes

• Elizabeth Edwards biography. Harry Walker Agency. Retrieved on 2007-01-21.

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External links

• Wade Edwards Foundation website.