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edwards_veep_070604.appHeader = "Profile|John Edwards";
edwards_veep_070604.appDeck = "Facts and information about the man tapped by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to be his running mate";
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edwards_veep_070604[i-1].body = "John Edwards was born June 10, 1953.
He is 51 years old, nine years younger than John Kerry.
Edwards was born in the mill town of Seneca, South Carolina -- the first child in his family.
His family moved and Edwards grew up in the town of Robbins, North Carolina.
Edwards’ father, Wallace, worked 36 years in textile mills.
His mother, Bobbie, worked second shift at a mill for a time, folding sheets. Edwards’ Web site says she also ran a shop and worked at the Post Office.
John Edwards is a Methodist";
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edwards_veep_070604[i-1].body = "Edwards received a Bachelor’s degree in textiles from North Carolina State University in 1974.
He earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977.
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edwards_veep_070604[i-1].body = "Edwards worked as a trial lawyer for 20 years -- in Raleigh, NC and Nashville, TN.
According to North Carolina Lawyers Weekly, Edwards won $150 million in settlements during the 1990s. That came from some 60 cases he tried.
In one case, he turned down a $17.5 million dollar settlement for a girl who depends on feeding tubes because her intestines were sucked into the drain of a wading pool.
Instead a jury awarded the girl and her family $25 million --the largest personal injury award in North Carolina state history.";
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edwards_veep_070604[i-1].body = "Edwards was elected to the U-S Senate in 1998, he is serving his first term.
He beat incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth by four percentage points in that race.
Edwards spent $6 million of his money on his senate campaign.
Almost instantly, Edwards was a rising Democratic star. Time Magazine dubbed him the Democrats’ “Golden Boy.” People Magazine called him “America’s Sexiest Politician.”
His profile increased when he was one of the finalists to be Al Gore’s running mate in 2000.";
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edwards_veep_070604[i-1].body = "Elizabeth Edwards was born July 3, 1949 and is 55 years old.
Her father was a Navy pilot and Elizabeth attended school in Japan during her early years.
She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, majoring in English.
She later started studying American Literature, but changed to law.
Elizabeth worked for the North Carolina Attorney General’s office in the 1980s.
In the early 1990s, she taught as an instructor at UNC Law School for two years.
She is active in the Wade Edwards foundation, which helps young people in North Carolina.
Elizabeth also fundraises for the March of Dimes and sits on the UNC Board of Visitors.";
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edwards_veep_070604[i-1].body = "Edwards is married to Elizabeth Anania Edwards.
The two met while both were in law school at UNC-Chapel Hill.
They married on July 30, 1977, the day after taking the bar exam.
The couple has three living children: Cate or Catharine, 21, Emma Claire, 5, and Jack, 3.
The Edwards’ son Wade was killed in an April 1996 traffic accident while in his mid-teens.
Wade’s jeep was swept off the highway by high winds.
John and Elizabeth started an educational foundation and decided to have more children as part of the healing process after Wade’s death.";
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