Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

Joe Biden was born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, PA as the first of four children. He lived there for 10 years before moving to Delaware. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1968, and then moved to Wilmington to set up his own firm. He was later elected to city council in 1970. In 1972 he was elected onto the senate after unseating a member and has already served 5-6 year terms. Directly after his first election into the senate his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident. He was remarried in 1977 to a teacher named Jill Jacobs. He has three children Beau, Hunter, and Ashley. In 1988, Biden nearly succumbed to a cranial aneurysm, but recovered after two surgeries.
He has great knowledge of foreign policies; one of the key factors in Obama’s choosing him as his VP. Biden’s main concerns lie in terrorism, drug policy, and many issues that matter a great deal to women. He has taken unusually high precautions against felons and has increased the amount of policemen on the streets by over 100,000! He also helped introduce the senate to the idea of global warming. Plus he has worked on trying to bring more members into NATO and tried unsuccessfully to ban budget cuts to the military while the country is at war. Overall, Biden has many successful achievements and was most likely the best choice for Obama’s VP.