Elizabeth Edwards Dies After Six Year Battle With Cancer
Elizabeth Edwards has died:
Elizabeth Anania Edwards, who became a national figure in her fight against cancer and as a partner in her husband John’s political career, died today. She was 61.
Edwards spent much of her life as a little-known Raleigh lawyer and mother. But that all changed when her husband, John Edwards, entered politics as a U.S. senator and became a two-time presidential candidate and the Democratic nominee for vice president.
Her husband’s career put her in the spotlight as a smart, plain-spoken wife who was a key adviser to her husband.
She later became a figure of sympathy as she battled breast cancer and dealt with her husband’s infidelity. And, in the last few years, her public image shifted again: the scorned woman whose husband fathered a child with another woman.
She and John Edwards separated at the beginning of 2010 but remained close.
Sympathies to the Edwards children, and friends of the family.
My condolences to her family. She was a truly classy lady.
And it’s a shame that she’s passed on and that scumbag she was married to is healthy as a horse.