Hamilton Stockton Jr., the founder of H. Stockton men’s clothing retailer, Buckhead Boy and a long-time community leader, died Jan. 24 at Piedmont Hospital. He was 93 years old.
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Bedingfield lived near the Atlanta s Chattahoochee River and grew up playing softball and doing gymnastics.
The now 39-year-old graduated from Riverwood High School in 2000 and the University of Virginia in 2004, according to the Northside Neighbor.
Bedingfield then moved to Washington, D.C., where she served as the regional press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006 when Democrats won the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 2008, she worked as the deputy national press secretary for John Edwards’ presidential campaign and as communications director on Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen s Senate campaign.
In the Obama administration, Bedingfield wore many hats serving as communications director and associate communications director for then-Vice President Joe Biden and as the deputy director of media affairs and the director of response.