Joe Biden
Official portrait, 2021
46th President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2021
Vice President	Kamala Harris
Preceded by	Donald Trump
47th Vice President of the United States
In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Dick Cheney
Succeeded by	Mike Pence
United States Senator from Delaware
In office January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
Preceded by	J. Caleb Boggs
Succeeded by	Ted Kaufman
Personal details
Born	Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (1942-11-20) November 20, 1942 (age 81) Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party	Democratic (since 1969)
Other political affiliations	Independent (before 1969)
Spouses	Neilia Hunter ​ ​ (m. 1966; died 1972)​ Jill Jacobs ​ (m. 1977)​
Children	Beau Hunter Naomi Ashley
Relatives	Biden family
Residence	White House
Education	University of Delaware (BA) Syracuse University (JD)
Occupation	Politician lawyer author
Awards	Full list
Signature
Website	Campaign website White House website
Joe Biden's voice Biden speaks on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul. Recorded August 16, 2021
Other offices 2007–2009: Chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus 2001[a]–2003, 2007–2009: Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1987–1995: Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee 1971–1973: Member of the New Castle County Council from the 4th district

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˈbaɪdən/ ^ⓘ BY-dən; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021. A 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.

Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953. He graduated from the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and to the U.S. Senate in 1972. As a senator, Biden drafted and led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. In 2008, Obama chose Biden as his running mate, and he was a close counselor to Obama during his two terms as vice president. In the 2020 presidential election, Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, defeated incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence. He is the oldest president in U.S. history, and the first to have a female vice president.

As president, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He signed bipartisan bills on infrastructure and manufacturing. He proposed the Build Back Better Act, which failed in Congress, but aspects of which were incorporated into the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed into law in 2022. Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. He worked with congressional Republicans to resolve the 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis by negotiating a deal to raise the debt ceiling. In foreign policy, Biden restored America's membership in the Paris Agreement. He oversaw the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that ended the war in Afghanistan, leading to the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban seizing control. He responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorizing civilian and military aid to Ukraine. During the Israel–Hamas war, Biden condemned the actions of Hamas and other Palestinian militants as terrorism, announced military support for Israel, and sent humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.^[1][2][3] In April 2023, Biden announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election, and is now the presumptive nominee.

Early life (1942–1965)

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942,^[4] at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania,^[5] to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (née Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr.^[6][7] The oldest child in a Catholic family of English, French, and Irish descent, he has a sister, Valerie, and two brothers, Francis and James.^[8]

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,^[9] but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old,^[10][11][12] and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton.^[13] Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find steady work.^[14] Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten,^[15] the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.^{[16][17][11][13]} Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.^[13][14][18]

At Archmere Academy in Claymont,^[19] Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.^[13][20] Though a poor student, he was class president in his junior and senior years.^[21][22] He graduated in 1961.^[21] At the University of Delaware in Newark, Biden briefly played freshman football,^[23][24] and, as an unexceptional student,^[25] earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science.^[26][27]

Biden had a stutter and has mitigated it since his early twenties.^[28] He has described his efforts to reduce it by reciting poetry before a mirror.^[22][29]

Marriages, law school, and early career (1966–1973)

Biden married Neilia Hunter, a student at Syracuse University, on August 27, 1966,^[26][30] after overcoming her parents' disinclination for her to wed a Catholic. Their wedding was held in a Catholic church in Skaneateles, New York.^[31] They had three children: Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III, Robert Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christina "Amy" Biden.^[26]

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