Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., an American politician and the 46th and current president of the United States, was born on November 20, 1942. He represented Delaware in the US Senate from 1973 to 2009 and was a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as President Barack Obama's 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017.
Biden, who was raised in Delaware, emigrated with his family in 1953 from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Before obtaining his legal degree from Syracuse University, he completed his studies at the University of Delaware. He won a seat on the New Castle County Council in 1970, and when he was elected to the Senate in 1972 at the age of 29, he rose to become the sixth-youngest senator in American history. Biden served as the leader or chair of the 12 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
He oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas, and chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995. He also drafted and led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. In 1988 and 2008, Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party's presidential candidacy. In the presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012, Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden. Throughout his two terms as Obama's vice president, Biden was a trusted advisor to the former president. Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, defeated incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election.
the oldest on January 20, 2021, when Biden first female vice president, first from Delaware, and first president in American history. He has handled the recession that followed the COVID-19 outbreak as president. In addition to the Defense of Marriage Act being overturned and the same-sex marriage rights enshrined, he also signed the American Rescue Plan Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Respect for Marriage Act. Ketanji Brown Jackson was chosen for the Supreme Court by him. In terms of foreign policy, Biden reinstated American participation in the Paris Climate Agreement. Ending the war in Afghanistan, which saw the fall of the Afghan government and the rise of the Taliban, he finished the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan that had been negotiated and started during the previous administration.
The Taliban took over. He joined Australia and the UK in signing the security treaty known as AUKUS. In response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he sanctioned Russia and approved the delivery of foreign aid and weaponry to Ukraine. Biden declared his plan to run for a second term as president in 2024 on April 25, 2023.
When Biden was seven years old, his father's business had problems. The family then spent a number of years living with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton. Biden's father had been prosperous, and the family had bought a home in the upscale Long Island neighborhood of Garden City in the fall of 1946. In the 1950s, Scranton's economy was in decline, and Biden's father struggled to find stable employment. The family first resided in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, when Biden was 10 years old, before relocating to a home in the adjacent Mayfield neighborhood. Later, Biden Sr. was a prosperous used-car salesman who kept the family in a middle-class lifestyle.
Biden played baseball and excelled as a halfback and wide receiver at Claymont's Archmere Academy.collegiate football squad Despite having a dismal academic record, he served as class president his junior and senior years.His graduation was in 1961. Biden briefly played freshman football at the University of Delaware in Newark before graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science. He was an average student there.
Since his early twenties, Biden's stutter has gotten better. Biden has discussed how he attempts to do so by reading poetry in front of a mirror.
In 1972, Biden won the race to replace J. Caleb Boggs as the junior senator from Delaware, defeating incumbent Republican Boggs. He was the only Democrat ready to take on Boggs, and because of his lack of funding, no one thought he had a chance of succeeding.The campaign was run and staffed by family members, and because Delaware is a tiny state, it was possible to meet voters in person and hand them position papers The AFL-CIO and Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell both provided assistance to him.His platform centered on the environment, the end of the Vietnam War, civil rights, mass transit, fair taxes, healthcare, and public unhappiness with "politics as usual". Biden trailed Boggs by over thirty percentage points a few months before the election, but his vigor, appealing young family, and capacity to evoke strong emotions in people helped him win.
worked in his favor and he received 50.5% of the vote, winning.
wife and daughter passed away
Few weeks after becoming a senator, on December 18, 1972, Biden's wife Neilia and their 1-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident in Hockessin, Delaware, while doing Christmas shopping. As Neilia backed out of an intersection, a semi-trailer truck struck her station wagon. Beau, who had a fractured leg and other wounds, and Hunter, who had a mild skull fracture and other head injuries, were their boys and were both rushed to the hospital in fair condition. Biden thought about leaving his position to take care of them, but Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield convinced him otherwise.Biden was enraged and religious after the accident.
doubt. He described how he "felt God had played a horrible trick" on him and how it was difficult for him to concentrate at work.
Later on, Biden repeatedly claimed that the truck driver had consumed alcohol prior to the crash, and this was confirmed by other media sites.The driver passed away in 1999, but his daughter fought to cleanse his name once more and win Biden's apology. There was no proof of drunk driving, according to the lead prosecutor who looked into the matter.A Biden representative then stated that Biden "fully accepts the [driver's] family's word that these rumors were false." Biden apologized by phone to the driver's daughter, and she accepted his apology. Biden apologized over the phone to the driver's daughter, and she accepted his apology.
Charles III and Camilla are congratulated by Biden on their coronations.
In a message to King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Saturday, US President Joe Biden praised the "enduring friendship between the U.S. and the U.K."
The bond between the two nations, according to Biden in a tweet, is "a source of strength for both our peoples," and he expressed pride that Jill Biden, the first lady, was "representing the United States for this historic occasion."