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Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware, in New Castle County. He is a member of the Democratic Party, the incumbent senior U.S. Senator from Delaware, and a likely candidate for the 2008 Presidential Election.
Early life and family
Biden was born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Joseph R. Biden. He grew up in suburban New Castle County, Delaware, graduated from Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware in 1961, and from the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware in 1965. He then attended Syracuse University College of Law, graduated in 1968, and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969. Russell Pickett Delaware and U.S.History. Retrieved December 24, 2005.
In 1966, while in law school, Biden married his first wife, Neilia Hunter, with whom he had three children, Joseph R. III (Beau), Robert Hunter, and Amy. His wife and infant daughter died in an automobile accident shortly after he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972. His two young sons, Beau and Hunter, were seriously injured in the accident, but both eventually made full recoveries. Biden was sworn into office from their bedside. Persuaded not to resign in order to care for them, Biden began the practice of commuting an hour and a half each day on the train from his home in the Wilmington suburbs to Washington, DC. In 1977, he married Jill Tracy Jacobs. They have one child, Ashley, and are members of the Roman Catholic Church. In February 1988, Biden was hospitalized for two brain aneurysms which kept him from the U.S. Senate for seven months.
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