Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953) is an American politician who served one term as U.S. Senator from North Carolina. He was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination through the January primaries.

He defeated incumbent Republican Lauch Faircloth in North Carolina's 1998 Senate election and toward the end of his six-year term sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2004 presidential election.

He eventually became the Democratic candidate for Vice President, the running mate of presidential nominee Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. After Edwards and Kerry lost the election to incumbents George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Edwards began working full time at the One America Committee, a political action committee he established in 2001, and was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He was also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC.

John Edwards (born July 31, 1981 in Warren, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player, currently positioned at center as a Free Agent.Fact|date=September 2007}} He stands 7'3" tall and weighs 279lbs.

Edwards played collegiately for Kent State University, taking two trips to the "Big Dance" - the NCAA tournament (losing to fifth seed Cincinnati in the second round after the upset beating fourth seed Indiana in the first round in 2001 and making it all the way to the elite eight in 2002 as a ten seed beating number two seed Alabama and number seven seed Oklahoma State.) He was named MAC Defensive Player of the Year in his final season and holds the Kent State record for season and career blocked shots.

He was invited to the Pacers' training camp in 2004. Mainly due to his size, and some unexpected injuries to the Pacers' big men early in the season, he was the only free agent training camp invitee to earn a spot on the main roster. Even so, he was expected to be released as soon as the Pacers got healthy, but the rash of suspensions resulting from the November 19, 2004 brawl at the Palace of Auburn Hills enabled him to remain on the team. Indeed, in one game shortly after the incident, the Pacers were only able to dress six players because of the suspensions and injuries and Edwards constituted the Pacers' entire bench.

During the summer of 2005, Edwards signed with the Atlanta Hawks and during the 2005-06 NBA season he averaged 8.6 minutes per game.

On August 22, 2006, Edwards was traded back to the Pacers, along with Al Harrington, in exchange for a 2007 first-round draft pick. Edwards was waived by the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Edwards enjoyed a les than spectacular high school career. A career backup behind former Ohio State Buckeye center Matt Marinchec, Edwards rarely saw time.

John Edwards (1748-1837) was an American planter and statesman who player a key role in securing Kentucky statehood, and represented the new state in the United States Senate.

Edwards was born in Stafford County, Virginia and move to Fayette County to start a plantation in what is now Bourbon County, Kentucky around 1780. He represented his county in the Virginia House of Delegates in several years and was part of the commission that determined the borders for Kentucky in 1788. In 1792 he was a delegate to the convention that drafted the first constitution for the new state, and when statehood was accomplished he and John Brown were the first U.S. Senators for Kentucky.

After his term as a senator he served in both houses of the state legislature. He died on his plantation and was buried in the family graveyard near Paris, Kentucky.

John Edwards (1795, Arundel - 1893, Plymouth) was a sailor who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar and is believed to be the last survivor of that battle. Settling in Plymouth after leaving the Royal Navy, he became a city councillor and warden of the synagogue.

John Edwards (1786 - June 26, 1843) was an Anti-Masonic and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

John Edwards (granduncle of John E. Leonard) was born in Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was deputy attorney general for Delaware County, Pennsylvania, in 1811. He moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1825 and shortly thereafter engaged in the manufacture of iron and later of nails near Glen Mills, Pennsylvania.

Edwards was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-sixth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress. After his time in congress, he resumed his former manufacturing pursuits, and died on his estate near Glen Mills in 1843. Interment in the Friends’ (Hicksite) Cemetery of the Middletown Meeting House in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

John Edwards (October 24, 1805 - April 8, 1894) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Edwards received a limited schooling. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Indiana, where he served in the State house of representatives in 1845 and 1846. He moved to California, and in 1849 was elected an alcalde. He returned to Indiana in 1852. He served as member of the State senate in 1853. He moved to Chariton, Iowa, in 1855. He served as member of the Iowa constitutional convention. He served in the State house of representatives 1856-1860, the last two years as speaker of the house. Founder in 1857 of the Patriot, a newspaper. He was appointed lieutenant colonel May 21, 1861, on the staff of the Governor of Iowa. He served as colonel of the Eighteenth Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, August 8, 1862. Brigadier general of Volunteers September 26, 1864. At the close of the war settled in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was appointed by President Johnson as United States assessor of internal revenue and served from August 15, 1866, to May 31, 1869. Presented credentials of election as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1871, to February 9, 1872, when he was succeeded by Thomas Boles, who contested the election. He was not a candidate for renomination. He settled in Washington, D.C., and died there April 8, 1894. He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

John Edwards (1781-1850) was a one term member of the United State House of Representatives from New York.

Edwards was born in Beekmans Precinct in Duchess County, New York on August 6th, 1781. He received his education in the common schools. From 1806-1812 he served as the Sheriff of Montgomery County, New York and as the keeper of the Johnstown Jail.

Later Edwards moved to Ephrata in Fulton County, New York. He was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1836 and served from 1837-1839. Outside of politics Edwards was engaged in mercantile and manufacturing ventures. He died at Johnstown, Fulton County, New York on December 28th, 1850.

John Edwards (1742 - 31 August1815 Hampstead ), was an English botanist, painter, designer and illustrator, noted for his serial publication, The British Herbal.

After living in London until about 1778, he moved to Surrey, and exhibited with the Royal Academy and the Society of Artists, of which he was a member. Edward also produced textile designs, especially for calico. He published The British Herbal Containing One Hundred Plates of The most beautiful and scarce Flowers and Useful Medicinal Plants in monthly parts between 1769 and 1770, covering exotic and British flowers, using text gathered from various sources, and his own hand-coloured engraved plates.

A Collection of Flowers Drawn after Nature & Disposed in an Ornamental & Picturesque Manner, was his next publishing venture. The imprint dates of the plates show that he had started the project in 1783, completing 79 plates through the 1780s and 1790s. Edwards designed, etched and coloured all the plates himself, thus having complete control of the operation.