John Edwards (disambiguation)

John Edwards (born 1953) is an American politician who was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

John Edwards may also refer to:

Entertainment

  • John Edwards (1699–1776), Welsh poet
  • John Edwards (1747–1792), Welsh poet
  • John Edwards (1751–1832), Irish poet
  • John Edwards (painter) (1742–1815), English painter, designer, illustrator and botanist
  • John Kelt Edwards (1875–1934), Welsh artist and cartoonist
  • John Paul Edwards (1884–1968), American photographer
  • John Uzzell Edwards (1934–2014), Welsh painter
  • John Edwards (singer) (born 1944), American R&B singer for the Spinners
  • John Edwards (musician) (born 1953), English bass guitarist for Status Quo
  • John Edwards (producer) (born 1953), Australian television drama producer
  • Johnny Edwards (musician), singer for the band Foreigner

Politics

United States

  • John Edwards (Kentucky politician) (1748–1837), Anti-Administration party
  • John Edwards (Charleston politician) (1760–1798), mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
  • John Edwards Caldwell (1769–1819), consular agent for the West Indies and San Domingo
  • John Stark Edwards (1777–1813), Ohio's 6th congressional district
  • John Edwards (New York politician) (1781–1850), 15th congressional district, 1837–1839
  • John Edwards (Pennsylvania politician) (1786–1843), 4th congressional district Anti-Mason (1839–1841) and Whig (1841–1843)
  • John Cummins Edwards (1804–1888), Democrat from Missouri; Congress at-large (1841–1843); governor (1844–1848)
  • John Edwards (Arkansas politician) (1805–1894), 3rd congressional district (March 1871 – February 1872)
  • John Edwards (Wisconsin politician) (1831–1891), Wisconsin State Assembly
  • John H. Edwards (banker) (1875–1955), Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
  • John S. Edwards (Virginia politician) (born 1943), in the Senate of Virginia
  • John Edwards (Rhode Island politician) (born 1958), state legislator in Rhode Island
  • John Bel Edwards (born 1966), Governor of Louisiana
  • John Charles Edwards, Arkansas House of Representatives

United Kingdom

  • John Edwards (MP for Bridgwater) (fl. 1562–1573), MP for Bridgwater
  • John Edwards (MP for Denbighshire) (c. 1562–1625), MP for Denbighshire
  • John Edwards (MP for Flint Boroughs) (died 1635), MP for Flint Boroughs
  • Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, of Garth (1770–1850), British MP for Montgomery (1833–1841)
  • John Edwards-Vaughan (1772–1833), British MP for Glamorganshire and Wells
  • John Passmore Edwards (1823–1911), British Liberal MP for Salisbury, elected in 1880; also newspaperman and philanthropist
  • J. Hugh Edwards (1869–1945), British Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan (1910–1918); Neath (1918–1922); Accrington (1923–1929)
  • John Edwards (Welsh politician) (1882–1960), British Liberal MP for Aberavon (1918–1922)
  • John Edwards (Labour politician) (1904–1959), British MP for Blackburn (1945–1950); Brighouse and Spenborough (1950–1959)

Elsewhere

  • John Edwards (Australian politician) (1820–1872), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
  • John Wesley Edwards (1865–1929), Conservative politician from Ontario; House of Commons (1908–1921 and 1925–1929)
  • John Edwards (regulator), New Zealand-born Information Commissioner for the United Kingdom

Religion

  • John Edwards (divine) (1637–1716), English Calvinistic divine
  • John Edwards (minister) (1714–1785), English dissenting minister at Leeds, Yorkshire
  • John Edwards (Unitarian minister) (1768–1808), English nonconformist and political radical
  • John Edwards (missionary) (1828–1903), American protestant minister to the Choctaw Nation, best known for work at Wheelock Mission in present-day Oklahoma
  • John Edwards (hymnist) (1805–1885), Welsh Anglican priest and hymn composer
  • John Edwards (archdeacon of St Asaph) (1889–1976), Welsh Anglican priest

Sports

  • John Hawley Edwards (1850–1893), footballer in England and Wales; a founder of Welsh Football Association
  • Jack Edwards (cricketer, born 1860) (John Dunlop Edwards, 1860–1911), Australian cricketer
  • John Edwards (footballer, born 1875) (1875–?), English soccer player
  • John Edwards (Canadian football) (1912–2005), Canadian football player
  • John Edwards (cricketer, born 1928) (1928–2002), Australian cricketer
  • John Edwards (Barbadian cricketer) (1909–1976), Barbadian cricketer
  • John Edwards (Australian footballer) (born 1942), Australian rules footballer
  • John Edwards (canoeist) (born 1954), Canadian sprint canoer
  • John Edwards (basketball) (born 1981), American basketball player
  • John Edwards (racing driver) (born 1991), American racing driver

Other

  • John Edwards (academic) (1600–1660?), professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford University 1638–1648
  • John Edwards (Siôn Treredyn) (1605/6–1656), Welsh translator who used the pen name "Siôn Treredyn"
  • John Edwards (American Civil War sailor) (1831–1902), member of U.S. Navy who was awarded Medal of Honor during the Civil War
  • John Newman Edwards (1839–1889), American frontier writer and newspaperman
  • John D. Edwards (1885–1918), American naval officer awarded the Navy Cross
  • John Bryn Edwards (1889–1922), Welsh ironmaster and philanthropist
  • John Ellis Edwards (1922–1979), Tuskegee airman
  • John Menlove Edwards (1910–1958), English child psychologist and poet
  • John H. Edwards (1928–2007), British medical geneticist
  • John Robert Edwards (born 1947), professor of psychology and language in Nova Scotia
  • John A. Edwards (born 1960), Irish judge
  • John M. Edwards, professor of surgery
  • John Edwards (British Army officer) (1896–?)
  • John Edwards (antiquarian) (1846–1937), Scottish lawyer, palaeographer and collector, see Edwards Professor of Medieval History
  • John Timothy Edwards, a Florida State University student murdered in 1994

See also

  • Jack Edwards (disambiguation)
  • Jackie Edwards (disambiguation)
  • John Edwards Holbrook (1796–1871), American zoologist, naturalist and physician
  • John Edward (disambiguation)
  • Jonathan Edwards (disambiguation)
  • John & Edward, X Factor finalists
  • Edwards (surname)
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