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Elizabeth Edwards
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'''Mary Elizabeth Edwards''' (nee '''Anania''') (born
July 3,
1949, in
Jacksonville, Florida) is a former attorney and the wife of
John Edwards (former U.S. Senator from
North Carolina and
2004 Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Vice President of the United States vice-presidential candidate). She was both an undergraduate and a graduate student in English at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She met John Edwards when they were both law students at the UNC
Law School; they wed in
1977. The Edwards are the parents of four children:
Catharine Edwards Catharine (or "Cate"), Wade, Emma Claire, and Jack. Wade died in a car accident in
1996.
In her career (she professionally kept her maiden name, Elizabeth Anania, until 1996, when after the death of her son and her retirement from her legal practice, she changed her name to Elizabeth Edwards), she began 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. She moved to
Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh in
1981 with John and son Wade to work at the law firm Merriman, Nicholls, and Crampton and has taught legal writing as an adjunct instructor at the law school of the
University of North Carolina.
She spent some of her childhood going to school in
Japan, where her father, a
United States Navy Lockheed U-2 U-2 aviator pilot, was stationed.
During much of 2004, Elizabeth joined her husband and Democratic Presidential nominee
List of United States Senators Senator John Kerry on the nationwide campaign trail. On
November 3,
2004, the day Kerry and Edwards conceded defeat in the
U.S. presidential election, 2004 2004 US Presidential Election, Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with
breast cancer.
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