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History about Joe Biden and his relatives and also about Kamela Harris and her husband.
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President Joseph (Joe) Biden Jr. Born: Nov. 20 - 1942 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. born November 20, 1942) is an American politician and president-elect of the United States. Having defeated incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 United States presidential election, he will be inaugurated as the 46th president in January 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Biden previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 and United States Senator for Delaware from 1973 to 2009.
Born: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. November 20, 1942 (age 77) Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. Political party: Democratic Spouse(s) Neilia Hunter (m. 1966; died 1972) Jill Jacobs (m. 1977) Children: Beau Hunter Naomi Ashley Jill Biden Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (née Jacobs, formerly Stevenson; born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who is the First Lady of the United States designate and was Second Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to Joe Biden, the current President-elect of the United States; President-elect Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021. She will be the first ever Italian American to become First Lady.
Enda Kenny, Biden, Joe Biden, and Fionnuala Kenny at Farmleigh in 2016.
Biden and her father dancing the hora at her wedding reception. Ashley Biden
Beau Biden giving his victory speech after being elected Attorney General of Delaware in 2006, as his father and step-mother look on Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (February 3, 1969 – May 30, 2015) was an American politician, lawyer and officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps from Wilmington, Delaware. He was the eldest of three children from the marriage of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter. He served as the 44th Attorney General of Delaware and a Major in the Delaware Army National Guard.
Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American lawyer and investment advisor who is the second son of United States President-elect Joe Biden. He is a founding partner of investment and advisory firm Rosemont Seneca Partners. Biden was recruited to the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, in 2014 and served until his term expired in April 2019. Robert Biden Biden was born on February 4, 1970 in Wilmington, Delaware. He is the second son of Neilia Biden (née Hunter) and Joe Biden, who served in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and as Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Hunter Biden's mother and younger sister Naomi were killed in an automobile crash on December 18, 1972. Biden and his older brother Beau were also seriously injured. Hunter and Beau later encouraged their father to marry again and Jill Jacobs became their stepmother in 1977. Biden's half-sister Ashley was born in 1981
President Joe Biden Raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware, Biden studied at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was elected a New Castle County Councillor in 1970, and became the sixth-youngest senator in American history when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, at the age of 29. Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and eventually its chairman. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991, but supported expanding the NATO alliance into Eastern Europe and its intervention in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002, but opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; he led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act, and oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and again in 2008.
Biden was a happily married family man when he was elected a senator in the 1970s. He had married Neilia Hunter in 1966, and the couple had three children: Joseph (known as Beau), Robert (known as Hunter), and Naomi. Just a few weeks after he was elected in 1972, Biden's wife Neilia and their three children were returning home from Christmas shopping in Delaware when their car was hit by a tractor trailer at an intersection. Neilia and Naomi, 1, were killed. Beau and Hunter were taken to hospital. Beau, 3, had a broken leg and Hunter, 4, had a skull fracture. Joe Biden and his first wife Neilia Hunter together.
Courthouse Square Scranton, Pennsylvania
New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2010 census, the population was 538,479, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with just under 60% of the state's population of 897,936. The county seat is Wilmington, which is also the state's most populous city.New Castle County is included in the Philadelphia- Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is named after William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (c. 1593–1676).
2020 United States presidential election The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election.
Kamala Harris Kamala Devi Harris born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the vice president-elect of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, she is set to assume office on January 20, 2021, alongside president-elect Joe Biden, having defeated incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election. Harris has served as the junior United States senator from California since 2017. Harris will be the first Indian American, the first African American, and the first female vice president in U.S. history, and thus, the highest- ranking female elected official in United States history. Harris is a multiracial American.
Douglas Emhoff Douglas Emhoff (born October 13, 1964) is an American lawyer and the husband of U.S. Senator and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. He is set to become the first Second Gentleman of the United States. Emhoff was born to Jewish parents, Michael and Barbara Emhoff, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. He has a brother, Andy, and a sister, Jamie. He lived in New Jersey from 1969 to 1981, moving with his family to California when he was a teenager. Emhoff graduated from Agoura High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Northridge and a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law.