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Presidential nominee for 2008 elections, senator Johnny Reid "John" Edwards was born on June 10, 1953 to Wallace R. Edwards and Kathryn Juanita Wade in Seneca, South Carolina. The John's father was a textile-mill worker and mother a postal employee. Edwards graduated with a bachelor's degree in textile technology and later earned his law degree from the University of North Carolina. He was the first person in his family to attend college.

Before he entered politics, Edwards worked as a 'personal injury' trial attorney with a specialization in corporate negligence and medical malpractice claims. He was highly successful as an attorney and made a fortune from it.

While in university, John Edwards met Elizabeth Anania whom he in 1977. Their first two children were, Wade and Cate. In 1996, 16-year old Wade was killed in a car accident. Following Wade's death, the couple chose to have children again. Their third child, Emma Claire was born 1998 and Jack in 2000.

John Edwards' son's death in a car accident, who he had hoped would eventually join him in his law practice, prompted him to leave the legal profession and seek public office. As a democratic candidate, he defeated the Republican incumbent Senator Lauch Faircloth to become a U.S. senator from North Carolina in 1998. Edwards served on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary.

In 2004 Edwards ran unsuccessfully for the presidential nomination. He was picked, eventually, by John Kerry, as his running mate. Kerry and Edwards however, lost to President Bush and Vice President Cheney. After losing out, Edwards was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Law.

On December 27, 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election. He is considered to be one of the strong candidates for the 2008 Presidential race.