"Joseph Biden" and "Biden" redirect here. For his son, Joseph Biden III, see Beau Biden. For other uses, see Biden (disambiguation).
Joe Biden
Official portrait, 2021
46th President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2021
Vice President
Kamala Harris
Preceded by
Donald Trump
47th Vice President of the United States
In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
President
Barack Obama
Preceded by
Dick Cheney
Succeeded by
Mike Pence
United States Senator from Delaware
In office January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
Preceded by
J. Caleb Boggs
Succeeded by
Ted Kaufman
Personal details
Born
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
(1942-11-20) November 20, 1942 (age 81) Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party
Democratic (since 1969)
Other political affiliations
Independent (before 1969)
Spouses
Neilia Hunter
(m. 1966; died 1972)
Jill Jacobs
(m. 1977)
Children
Beau
Hunter
Naomi
Ashley
Relatives
Biden family
Residence
White House
Education
University of Delaware (BA)
Syracuse University (JD)
Occupation
Politician
lawyer
author
Awards
Full list
Signature
Website
Campaign website
White House website
Joe Biden's voice
Biden speaks on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the fall of Kabul. Recorded August 16, 2021
Other offices
2007–2009: Chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus
2001[a]–2003, 2007–2009: Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
1987–1995: Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee
1971–1973: Member of the New Castle County Council from the 4th district
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˈbaɪdən/ⓘ, BY-dən; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953. He graduated from the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and to the U.S. Senate in 1972. As a senator, Biden drafted and led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act. He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. In 2008, Obama chose Biden as his running mate, and he was a close counselor to Obama during his two terms as vice president. In the 2020 presidential election, Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, defeated incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence. He is the oldest president in U.S. history, and the first to have a female vice president.
As president, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He signed bipartisan bills on infrastructure and manufacturing. He proposed the Build Back Better Act, which failed in Congress, but aspects of which were incorporated into the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed into law in 2022. Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. He worked with congressional Republicans to resolve the 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis by negotiating a deal to raise the debt ceiling. In foreign policy, Biden restored America's membership in the Paris Agreement. He oversaw the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that ended the war in Afghanistan, during which the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control. He responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorizing civilian and military aid to Ukraine. During the Israel–Hamas war, Biden announced military support for Israel, condemned the actions of Hamas and other Palestinian militants as terrorism,[1] and ordered the U.S. military to build a port to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.[2] In April 2023, Biden announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in the 2024 presidential election.
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^Baker, Peter (October 10, 2023). "In Unforgiving Terms, Biden Condemns 'Evil' and 'Abhorrent' Attack on Israel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 12, 2023. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
^"Biden Ordering US Military to Build Port in Gaza to Facilitate Aid". March 7, 2024.
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