In another key post, he was also chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995.īiden won re-election to the Senate six times before becoming vice president in 2009. 7, he had been elected to become the sixth-youngest senator in US history, and went on to serve 36 years in the chamber, including being a longtime member of its powerful Foreign Relations Committee, eventually becoming its chairman in 2001. 18, 1972, Biden's first wife, Neilia, and the couple’s one-year-old daughter Amy were killed in a car accident in Delaware, while his sons Beau and Hunter both suffered injuries. In an incident which left deep scars, on Dec. Biden sought to improve bilateral relations and help Kiev root out corruption.īiden was born in 1942 in the blue-collar city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, but was largely raised in the state of Delaware, where he attended university before earning his law degree in 1968 from New York’s Syracuse University. "To know Joe Biden is to know love without pretense, service without self-regard, and to live life fully," he said.īiden was Obama's point man in Ukraine in the face of Russia's illegal 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and support for separatist rebels in the east. 12, 2017 White House ceremony, Obama hailed Biden as "the best vice president America's ever had" and a "lion of American history." The oldest president to date was the late Reagan, who was 77 when he left office in 1989.īiden's eight years as “veep” was highlighted by Obama awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the two highest civilian awards in the US, in the final days of the administration.Īt a Jan. 20, two months to the day before his Jan. Unlike Bush, however, Biden spent four years outside of government office before winning the White House.īush lost his re-election bid four years later, making him a one-term president, and Biden himself has indicated he may voluntarily serve just a single term, describing himself as a "transition candidate."īiden is also the oldest person in American history to lay claim to the mantle of president-elect, as he will turn 78 on Nov. Bush, who won in 1988 after eight years under Ronald Reagan. The victory of Joe Biden, 77, over incumbent Donald Trump makes him first former vice president to win the Oval Office since George H. is set to return to the White House, but this time to serve in his boss’ old job, as the US’ 46th president After serving eight years as vice president under Barack Obama, next Jan.
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