Joe Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Biden was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, moving with his family to New Castle County, Delaware, in 1953 when he was ten.
He studied at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history after he was elected to the United States Senate from Delaware in 1972, at age 29.
He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. Biden was re-elected to the Senate six times and was the fourth-most senior sitting senator at the time when he became Obama’s vice president after they won the 2008 presidential election, defeating John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin.
Obama and Biden were reelected in 2012, defeating Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan.
Full Name: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
Date Of Birth: November 20, 1942
Age: 79
Place Of Birth: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S
Nationality: American
Profession: Politician
Networth: $9 million
Personal Life:
On August 27, 1966, Biden married Neilia Hunter (1942–1972), a student at Syracuse University, after overcoming her parents’ reluctance for her to wed a Roman Catholic. Their wedding was held in a Catholic church in Skaneateles, New York. They had three children: Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III (1969–2015), Robert Hunter Biden (born 1970), and Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden (1971–1972).
On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden’s wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. Neilia’s station wagon was hit by a semi-trailer truck as she pulled out from an intersection. Their sons Beau (aged 3) and Hunter (aged 2) survived the accident and were taken to the hospital in fair condition, Beau with a broken leg and other wounds and Hunter with a minor skull fracture and other head injuries.
Biden credits his second wife, teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs, with the renewal of his interest in politics and life they met in 1975 on a blind date and were married at the United Nations chapel in New York on June 17, 1977.
Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. At 78, he is the oldest person to have assumed the office.
He is the second Catholic president (after John F. Kennedy) and the first president whose home state is Delaware.
He is the second non-incumbent vice president (after Richard Nixon in 1968) to be elected president. He is also the first president of the Silent Generation.