Joe Biden Bio, Parents, Wife, Children, Siblings, Net Worth

Joe Biden Bio, Parents, Wife, Children, Siblings, Net Worth: Joe Biden, officially known as Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician born on November 20, 1942.

He studied at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University before he briefly kicked off his political career.

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.

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Biden was the chair or ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years. He chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995.

He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. However, he was chosen by Barack Obama as his running mate in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.

During his two terms as Obama’s vice president, Biden frequently represented the administration in negotiations with congressional Republicans and was a close counselor to Obama.

Joe Biden served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. He previously represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

Joe Biden is the 46th and current president of the United States. He and his running mate, Kamala Harris, defeated incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election.

On January 20, 2021, he became the oldest president in U.S. history, the first to have a female vice president, and the first president from Delaware.

Biden completed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, ending the war in Afghanistan, during which the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control.

He also responded to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorizing foreign aid and weapons shipments to Ukraine.

Joe Biden Age

Joe Biden celebrated his 80th birthday on November 20, 2022. He was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States. Bien will be 81 in November this year.

Joe Biden Height

Joe Biden stands at a height of 1.82 m

Joe Biden Parents

Joe Biden was born at the St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Catherine Eugenia Biden (mother) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr (father).

His mother is of Irish descent while his father has English, Irish, and French Huguenot ancestry.

Catherine (mother) was born on July 17, 1917, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and died on January 8, 2010, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Joseph (father) was born on November 13, 1915, and passed away on September 2, 2002.

Joe Biden Wife

As of February 2023, Joe Biden had been married twice. On August 27, 1966, Biden married Neilia Hunter.

On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after Biden was elected senator, his wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi died in an accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware

Neilia’s car was hit by a semi-trailer truck as she pulled out from an intersection. Their sons Beau Biden and Hunter Biden were taken to the hospital. Biden was sworn into the U.S. Senate at his sons’ hospital.

In 1975, Biden met Jill Tracy Jacobs on a blind date. After months of dating, they got married at the United Nations chapel in New York on June 17, 1977.

Jill is a teacher who earned her doctorate in education and returned to teaching as an English professor at a community college in Virginia.

Jill was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. She’s been the current first lady of the United States since 2021.

Joe Biden Children

Joe Biden had four children, Hunter Biden, Naomi Biden, Beau Biden, and Ashley Biden.

Joe Biden had three children with his first wife, Neilia Hunter. They are Beau Biden, Robert Biden, and Naomi Biden.

Naomi was born on November 8, 1971. Together with her mother, they died in a car accident on December 18, 1972.

Beau was born on February 3, 1969, and passed away on May 30, 2015, after battling brain cancer. Hunter is an American attorney.

Joe Biden and his second wife, Jill Jacobs have a daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden born on June 8, 1981. She’s an American social worker, activist, philanthropist, and fashion designer.