Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Family origins
He was the eldest of the four children of Joseph R. Biden, a car salesman, and Catherine Eugenia Finnegan, of Irish origin. He spent his early years in the suburbs of New Castle Country, Delaware.
Studies
Graduated from the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, in 1961, and in history and political science from the University of Delaware, Newark, in 1965. Later, he would study at Syracuse University College of Law. ), where he graduated in 1968. In 1969, he worked as a lawyer in Wilmington, Delaware.
Senator
Member of the council of the county of New Castle between 1970 and 1972, year in which it was presented / displayed to the Senate by the Democratic Party being chosen. He came to Washington DC at just 29 years old, making him the fifth youngest Senator in the history of the United States. He would be reelected five consecutive times in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996 and 2002.
Biden Crime Law
Elected Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (1987-1995), he played a leading role in enacting the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, also known as the Biden Crime Law. In 1994, she was the author of the Violence Against Women Act, (Violence Against Women Act).
He chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee between 2001 and 2003, and since January 2007 when the Democrats regained control of the Senate.
During the conflict in the Balkans, he made trips to the region and was decisive for President Bill Clinton to use military force against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for the violation of human rights.
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he supported the policies of President George W. Bush in Afghanistan and in October 2002 he voted in favor of the resolution authorizing the government to use force against Iraq.
In 2006, he presented a plan for Iraq based on a federal system inspired by the Bosnian experience. He would also be one of the first to call for the closure of the detainee camps at the Guantánamo naval base .
First candidacy
On June 9, 1987, he announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States based on his popularity among progressive groups, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that rejected the ultra-conservative Robert Bork for the Supreme Court.
He was accused of plagiarism in an election speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.
In February 1988, before New Hampshire Elementary, he was hospitalized for two brain aneurysms. On January 7, 2007, he announced that he would again present his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States, although after the first appointment in the election process in the Iowa Caucus.
On January 3, 2008, he withdrew due to the low probability that the polls gave him to reach the candidacy.
Shortly before the party convention in Denver, Barack Obama proposed him the candidacy for the vice presidency and on August 23, 2008, he was announced as a companion of the presidential candidate facing the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, and in the presidential elections of 4 of November 2008, they defeated the Republican candidacy of McCain and Palin, achieving 52.8% against 45.8%.
Vice President of the United States
On January 20, 2009, Biden was sworn in as Vice President of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, replacing Dick Cheney.
Throughout his tenure, he worked on initiatives such as the implementation of the Recovery and Reinvestment Act in the United States, which aims to lay the foundations for a sustainable economy. Chairman of the Middle-Class Task Force, a White House initiative designed to raise living standards for working-class families in the United States.
Located on the centrist fringe of the Democratic Party, with moderate positions on issues such as abortion, gay marriage and the death penalty. He supported measures in favor of the middle class, others that facilitate access to the University, and a law for the recovery and reinvestment in the country’s industry. He also promised to protect the pension of retirees, and maintain the security of the nation and citizens.
Wikileaks
Joe Biden was linked through Wikileaks leaks to the policies of torture and indiscriminate murder carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan during the term of George W. Bush, accusations that were denied, alleging that as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he requested on several occasions research on this topic.
In October 2015, months after the death of her son Beau, after having battled brain cancer for several years, she announced her decision not to run in the Democratic primary in view of the 2016 presidential election.
General Elections 2020
He announced his candidacy for the presidency on April 25, 2019.
Joseph Robinette Biden became the official candidate of the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States on August 19, 2020, as decided by the delegates of that party in an online vote, in the second day of the Democratic Convention, which was held via the Internet because of COVID-19.
On November 7, 2020, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, after close scrutiny of almost 72 hours, won more than the 270 voters needed after he conquered the key state of Pennsylvania to become the new president of the United States.
His election opens a new era in the world’s first power and marks the beginning of the end of the controversial legacy of Donald Trump, who, without the support of the Republican Party, launched accusations of fraud and announced a legal battle.
United States’s president
Joe Biden was sworn in as President of the United States on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in Washington. The 46th president in the country’s history and the oldest, who began his term at the age of 78
Personal life
In 1966, he married Neilia Hunter, with whom he had three children, Joseph R. III (Beau), Robert Hunter, and Naomi.
His wife and youngest daughter were killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver shortly after Biden was elected Senator in 1972. He was sworn in next to the hospital bed where his children were recovering. His two sons, Beau and Hunter, were seriously injured.
In 1977, he married the English teacher, Jill Tracy Jacobs, with whom he had his daughter, Ashley.
