Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States. A moderate member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009
Joe Biden:Facts
- Born: Joseph Robinette .November 20, 1942 ,Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Political party :Democratic since 1969
- Other political:affiliations Independent (before 1969)
- Spouses:Neilia Hunter(m. 1966; died 1972)Jill Jacobs
- Children:Beau Hunter Naomi Ashley
- Relatives :Biden family
- Residence :White House
- Education:University of Delaware (BA) Syracuse University (JD
Joe Biden:Early life (1942–1965)
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania,to Catherine Eugenia “Jean” Biden (née Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr The oldest child in a Catholic family of largely Irish descent, he has a sister,Joe Biden Valerie, and two brothers, Francis and James.
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football teamThough a poor student, he was class president in his junior and senior yearsHe graduated in 1961. At the University of Delaware in Newark, Biden briefly played freshman football, and, as an unexceptional student, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science.
Biden had a stutter and has mitigated it since his early twenties. He has described his efforts to reduce it by reciting poetry before a mirror
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946 but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden’s father could not find steady work. Beginning in 1953 when Biden was tenthe family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.
Joe Biden:Marriages, law school, and early career (1966–1973)
Biden married Neilia Hunter, a student at Syracuse University, on August 27, 1966after overcoming her parents’ disinclination 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, Robert Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden
Biden in the Syracuse 1968 yearbook
Biden earned a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. He ranked 76th in a class of 85 students after failing a course because he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at law school. He was admitted to Joe Biden the Delaware bar in 1969
Biden clerked at a Wilmington law firm headed by prominent local Republican William Prickett in 1968 and, he later saidJoe Biden, “thought of myself as a Republican” He disliked incumbent Democratic Delaware governor Charles L. Terry’s conservative racial politics and supported a more liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who defeated Terry in 1968.Local Republicans attempted to recruit Biden, but he registered as an Independent because of his distaste for Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon
In 1969, Biden practiced law, first as a public defender and then at a firm headed by a locally active Democrat who named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying to reform and revitalize the state party;Biden subsequently reregistered as a Democrat. He and another attorney also formed a law firm. Corporate law did not appeal to him, and criminal law did not pay well. He supplemented his income by managing properties.
Biden ran for the 4th district seat on the New Castle County Council in 1970 on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the suburbs. The seat had been held by Republican Henry R. Folsom, who was running in the 5th District following a reapportionment of council districts. Biden won the general election, defeating Republican Lawrence T. Messick, and took office on January 5, 1971.He served until January 1, 1973, and was succeeded by Democrat Francis R. Swift.[During his time on the county council, Biden opposed large highway projects, which he argued might disrupt Wilmington neighborhoods.
Biden had not openly supported or opposed the Vietnam War until he ran for Senate and opposed Richard Nixon’s conduct of the war. While studying at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University, Biden obtained five student draft deferments from conscription at a time when most draftees were sent to the war. Based on a physical examination, he was given a conditional medical deferment in 1968; in 2008, a spokesperson for Biden said his having had “asthma as a teenager” was the reason for the deferment
Joe Biden:Second marriage
Biden met the teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs in 1975 on a blind date. They married at the United Nations chapel in New York on June 17, 1977 They spent their honeymoon at Lake Balaton in the Hungarian People’s Republic. Biden credits her with the renewal of his interest in politics and life.Biden is Roman Catholic and attends Mass with his wife, Jill, at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware. Their daughter, Ashley Bidens a social worker and is married to physician Howard Krein.Beau Biden became an Army Judge Advocate in Iraq and later Delaware Attorney General; he died of brain cancer in 2015. Hunter Biden worked as a Washington lobbyist and investment adviser; his business dealings and personal life came under significant scrutiny during his father’s presidency.
Joe Biden:Vice presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012
Shortly after Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Obama privately told him he was interested in finding an important place for Biden in his administration.In early August, Obama and Biden met in secret to discuss the possibility, and developed a strong personal rapport On August 22, 2008, Obama announced that Biden would be his running mate.The New York Times reported that the strategy behind the choice reflected a desire to fill out the ticket with someone with foreign policy and national security experience. Others pointed out Biden’s appeal to middle-class and blue-collar voters.Biden was officially nominated for vice president on August 27 by voice vote at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Biden’s vice-presidential campaigning gained little media attention, as the press devoted far more coverage to the Republican nominee, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.Under instructions from the campaign, Biden kept his speeches succinct and tried to avoid offhand remarks, such as one he made about Obama’s being tested by a foreign power soon after taking office, which had attracted negative attention. Privately, Biden’s remarks frustrated Obama. “How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?” he asked Obama campaign staffers called Biden’s blunders “Joe bombs” and kept Biden uninformed about strategy discussions, which in turn irked Biden.[168] Relations between the two campaigns became strained for a month, until Biden apologized on a call to Obama and the two built a stronger partnership.
As the financial crisis of 2007–2010 reached a peak with the liquidity crisis of September 2008 and the proposed bailout of the United States financial system became a major factor in the campaign, Biden voted for the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which passed in the Senate, 74–25.On October 2, 2008, he participated in the vice-presidential debate with Palin at Washington University in St. Louis. Post-debate polls found that while Palin exceeded many voters’ expectations, Biden had won the debate overall.
Joe Biden:Presidency (2021–present)
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)[312] and the first president whose home state is Delaware. He is also the first man since George H. W. Bush to have been both vice president and president, and the second non-incumbent vice president (after Richard Nixon in 1968) to be elected president He is also the first president from the Silent Generation.
Biden’s inauguration was “a muted affair unlike any previous inauguration” due to COVID-19 precautions as well as massively increased security measures because of the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Trump did not attend, becoming the first outgoing president since 1869 to not attend his successor’s inauguration.