Introduction
Joseph Robinette Biden is an American politician who has served as the 46th president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. He also represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Early Life
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Joe Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953. In 1965, he graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and he later received his Juris Doctor degree from Syracuse University in 1968.
Biden was elected in 1970 to the New Castle County Council and in 1972 to the U.S. Senate, where he would later play an important role in drafting and leadership efforts to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, as well as the Violence Against Women Act.
Age
Joe Biden is 82 years old.
At 82 years and 1 month, Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States, is currently the oldest sitting president in the history of United States.
Marriage Life
Biden married Neilia Hunter, a student at Syracuse University, on August 27, 1966 after overcoming her parents’ disinclination for her to wed a Catholic. Their wedding was held in a Catholic church in Skaneateles, New York. They had three children: Joseph R. “Beau” Biden, Robert Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden.
Death of wife and daughter
It had been just a few weeks since Joe Biden had become senator when tragedy struck with the car accident that killed his wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi on December 18, 1972, while shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. Neilia’s station wagon was hit by a semi-trailer truck when she pulled out from an intersection. Their sons, Beau, 3 years old, and Hunter, 2 years old, were in the car with them. They were taken to the hospital with non-threatening injuries—beau had a broken leg and other wounds and Hunter suffered a minor skull fracture and other head injuries.
He was contemplating resigning in order to take care of his sons. It was then that Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield talked him out of it. He struggled through those months with overwhelming grief, anger, and religious doubt. He even contemplated suicide. As he later said, he “felt God had played a horrible trick” on him.
Second marriage
Joe Biden met his wife, teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs, on a blind date in 1975. They were married June 17, 1977, in the chapel of the United Nations in New York City. Jill Tracy Jacobs was on her honeymoon in Lake Balaton, Hungary. Joe credits Jill with the renewal of interest to politics and living as well. The couple regularly attends Mass at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware.
Politics
Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States from 2009–2017, and a senator from the state of Delaware from 1973–2009. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who ran as president in 2008 after being chosen as the running mate of Barack Obama. Biden was chosen as the Vice President in 2008, and served again as a vice president in 2012. On April 2019, he declared his candidacy for the presidential election of 2020. In April 2020, he emerged as the presumptive Democratic nominee; officially nominated in August 2020, he defeated incumbent President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
He is also the current prime minister of United States,
