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Joe Biden

Interesting Facts To Know

Born in 1942, Joe Biden was the first-born of Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr’s 4 children in Scranton Pennsylvania.

By 1968, Joe had graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor’s degree and also graduated from Syracuse University in New York with a Law degree. After graduation, Joe returned to Delaware and started working as an attorney

Joe became the 5th youngest person to be elected into the Senate at the age of 29.

While out Christmas shopping with their children Joe’s wife, Neilia, was in a car accident with a tractor-trailer that resulted in the death of both Neilia and their daughter

Son's Death

His eldest son Beau became Delaware’s attorney general and also served the U.S in Iraq. Tragedy soon struck again when Beau had a stroke in 2010 and then developed brain cancer in 2013 and later died because of it

Plagiarism

Joe Biden’s first attempt to get into the White House was his presidential run in 1988 when he pursued the Democratic nomination. He withdrew from the nomination race after parts of his speech were discovered to be plagiarized from a British political leader.

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Published Author

Joe Biden used all of his experiences throughout the years to write 9 books. Some of the books that Joe has written include, Promise Me, Dad, and Democracy has Prevailed.

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Joe Biden’s time as Vice President peaked in 2017 when Barack Obama gave him the Medal of Freedom.