FROM SENATOR TO VICE PRESIDENTīiden gained both praise and criticism during his time in the Senate for his work in such areas as judicial appointments, criminal justice, and foreign affairs. He went on to serve in the Senate for 36 years, until 2009. At first, Biden wasn’t sure if he should take his Senate seat, but he eventually did he was sworn in from his son Beau’s hospital room in 1973.

The couple’s two young sons, Beau and Hunter, were seriously injured. Just days before his swearing in, his wife, Neilia Hunter, and year-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car accident. He soon turned to politics and at age 29 became one of the youngest U.S. He was more successful on the football field than in the classroom but went on to graduate from the University of Delaware and earn a law degree from Syracuse University in New York.

When Biden was in third grade, the family moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware, where Biden would live for most of the rest of his life.īiden struggled to overcome a childhood stutter by reciting memorized speeches to his reflection and planning conversations in advance. His father cleaned furnaces and was a used car salesman his mother was a homemaker. He was the oldest of four children in a family that had fallen on hard times. president born between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the end of World War II in 1945. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the only U.S.

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