Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the forty-sixth president of the United States is one of the charismatic faces in politics.
However, his life history has had very complicated moments, especially in his personal life. Few things about President Joe Biden you may not know.
Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942, and grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in a family of very Catholic Irish origin.
His father was a car salesman. In the 1950s he lost his job and the family migrated to the neighboring state of Delaware when Joe was 10 years old.
Biden was bullied for stuttering at school.
As a young man, he worked as a lifeguard in a swimming pool in a black neighborhood and there he learned about the injustices and inequalities that affect this community, which sparked his interest in politics.
Later, Biden studied at the University of Delaware and attended Syracuse Law School. Unfortunately, in a 1972 car accident, he lost his first wife, Neilia Hunter, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi.
Also, her two sons, Beau, 4, and Hunter, 2, were seriously injured but survived. In 1975 Biden met his second wife, Jill Jacobs, the aspiring First Lady of the United States, whom he married two years later and had a daughter named Ashley.
Biden came to Washington as a young upstart. He was elected in 1972, at age 29, to the Senate from Delaware and served there for 36 years before serving from 2009 to 2017 as vice president to Barack Obama, the country's first black president.
Today, at 77 years old, he is the new president of the United States. 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.
Joe Biden’s life can be counted on success: as a child, he overcame his stuttering, at the age of 29, he was elected U.S. senator, and in 2008, he became the country’s vice president. But there is another side to his personality that is marked by his tragedies: a few weeks before starting work in the Senate, he lost his first wife and young daughter in a serious car accident.
The first time he tried to be president of the United States, in 1987, his campaign ended prematurely after his retirement on charges of plagiarism. And his eldest son, Beau, an Iraqi veteran and a Democratic Party rising star died of cancer prematurely in 2015 at the age of 46.
