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Joe Biden: Life in Brief
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was elected the 46th president of the United States after thirty-six years in the Senate and eight years as vice president.
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On January 20, , at age 78, Biden became the oldest president in history to take oath of office. He confronted a divided nation wracked by the worst health crisis in a century with the coronavirus pandemic, a staggered economy, protests for racial justice, and internal threats to American democracy.
Biden sought the presidency three times—, , and During his long years in public service, he twice suffered enormous personal tragedy. Shortly after he was first elected to the Senate in , his first wife Neilia and infant daughter, Naomi, known as Amy, were killed in a car crash; his sons Beau and Hunter were injured.
In , when Biden was vice president and grappling with a possible presidential run in , his son Beau died of brain cancer.
Biden was born on November 20, , in Scranton, Pennsylvania, into