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The electoral history of Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States, began in 1970. [1] . Biden served as the 47th vice president (2009–2017), and as a United States senator from Delaware (1973–2009).
Aug 15, 2022 · August 15, 2022. Joe Biden, Sr., revealed little about his tumultuous personal and business dealings with his cousin Bill Sheene, Jr. Photograph by Jamie Chung for The New Yorker / Source...
- Joe Biden’s Early Years
- Senator Biden and First Presidential Run
- Joe Biden as Vice President
- Joe Biden's 2020 Presidential Run
- Covid-19 and The 2020 Election
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942, in the blue-collar city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. At age 10 he moved with his family to the Wilmington, Delaware, area, where his father found work as a car salesman. The first of four siblings, Biden attended a series of Catholic schools, including the elite preparatory high school Archmer...
Biden won reelection in 1978 and five times after that. Overall, he spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate, including eight years as chair of the Judiciary Committee and four years as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. Despite generally supporting civil rights, Biden opposed the forced busing of students to end de facto segregation. Later on, he ...
Biden kicked off his second attempt at the White House 20 years later, during the 2008 primary, but dropped out after securing only 1 percent of the delegates in the Iowa Democratic caucuses. Barack Obama tapped him to be his running mate after winning the Democratic nomination. In the November 2008 presidential elections, Obama and Biden bested th...
On April 25, 2019, Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. As a popular former vice president, he immediately entered the race with high name recognition. Biden ran alongside 28 other Democratic candidates in a crowded primary that pitted Biden's more moderate policies against those of progressive candidates suc...
A looming issue throughout the election was the coronavirus pandemic which had claimed more than 230,000 American lives and infected more than 9 million in the country. President Trump, himself, became infected with COVID-19in October and was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he received several treatments, including an experimental...
A 2019 photo of Jill Biden with members of the Biden family Naomi Biden Neal with husband Peter Neal, Joe Biden, and Jill Biden on the White House South Lawn for her 2022 wedding. Joe Biden has married twice and fathered four children. His seven grandchildren come from his two sons, five from Hunter and two from Beau.
Joe Biden: Campaigns and Elections. As far back as his high school days at Archmere Academy, Joe Biden had his heart set on the biggest prize in American politics. When the father of a classmate named Dave Walsh asked him what he wanted to do with his life, Biden was quick with an answer: “Mr. Walsh, I want to be president of the United ...
Photograph by Official White House photo / David Lienemann. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the only U.S. president born between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the end of World War II in 1945. He was the oldest of four children in a family that had fallen on hard times.
By Steven Levingston. Photo: Pete Souza/The White House. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46 th president of the United States after thirty-six years in the Senate and eight years as vice president. On January 20, 2021, at age 78, Biden became the oldest president in history to take oath of office.
