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Kerry, John Forbes, 1943–, U.S. politician, b. Denver, grad. Yale, 1966, Boston College law school, 1976. A decorated navy veteran who served two tours in Vietnam after graduating from Yale, Kerry won national notice as an outspoken opponent of the war when he returned stateside. Entering politics in his home state of Massachusetts, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1972. After graduating from law school, he served as an assistant district attorney (1977–82) before becoming lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (1983–85). In 1984, Kerry was elected to the U.S. Senate and since has been reelected three times. He chaired the Senate committee on small business from 2001 to 2003, and with Senator John McCain McCain, John Sidney, 3d, 1936–, U.S. politician, b. Panama Canal Zone. A much decorated navy veteran, he was born into a career naval family and attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1958.
..... Click the link for more information. was instrumental in the the lifting of the U.S. trade embargo of Vietnam in the 1990s. An early favorite for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, he was eclipsed by Howard Dean in the months leading up to the caucuses and primaries. However, Kerry quickly emerged as the frontrunner once the voting began, securing enough delegates for the nomination by mid-March, and he subsequently chose North Carolina senator John Edwards Edwards, John Reid, 1953–, U.S. politician, b. Seneca, S.C., grad. North Carolina State Univ. (B.A., 1974), Univ. of North Carolina (J.D., 1977). The son of a textile-mill worker and a postal employee, he was raised in a small North Carolina town and was the
..... Click the link for more information. as his running mate. After the most expensive campaign in U.S. history, the Democratic ticket lost to the incumbents, President G. W. Bush Bush, George Walker, 1946–, 43d president of the United States (2001–), b. New Haven, Conn. The eldest son of President George H. W. Bush , he was was raised in Texas and, like his father, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.
..... Click the link for more information. and Vice President Cheney Lynne V. Cheney, 1941–, b. Casper, Wyo., as Lynne Ann Vincent. Noted as a conservative advocate of traditional educational standards, she headed the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1986 to 1993 and was co-host (1996–8) of television's Crossfire Sunday.
..... Click the link for more information. , in the Nov., 2004, election. Kerry became chairman of the Senate small business and entrepreneurship committee in 2007.

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See biography by M. Kranish et al. (2004); P. Alexander, The Candidate (2004).