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Joe Biden Biography |
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Joe Biden is the Vice President-elect of the United States and the senior United States Senator from Delaware. Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the fifth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008, and has served for the sixth-longest period among current senators.
Joe Biden is a long-time member and current chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there. He has served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Joe Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008, both times dropping out early in the process. Barack Obama selected Biden to be the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 U.S. election. Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to be elected Vice President of the United States.
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Message from the Publicist of Joe Biden |
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Joe Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 at age 29, becoming one of the youngest senators in history. Just weeks after he won his Senate seat, Joe Biden's wife, Neilia, and daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car crash. His two sons, Joseph 'Beau' III and Hunter, were critically injured but recovered. Joe Biden met his second wife, Jill Jacobs, a schoolteacher, in 1975. The couple married two years later and have a daughter, Ashley.
Last updated by Webloid on 2008-12-20.
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