U. S. President-Elect Barack Obama
surprises Vice President-Elect
Joe Biden with 12 cupcakes for his 66th
birthday on November 20. In addition, President-Elect Barack Obama
gave Vice President-Elect Joe
Biden presents of a Chicago baseball team White
Sox cap, a Chicago football team Bears cap and a bucket of Garrett
popcorn.
Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden was also reelected to his Delaware
Senatorial seat on November 4, 2008, the same day he was elected to the
vice presidency. It is expected that Vice President-Elect Biden's
son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who is currently serving in the
Delaware National Guard in Iraq as an attorney, will be appointed by the
Democratic governor of Delaware to replace Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden in the Senate to fill out his 6-year
term.
Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden insisted on a weekly one-on-one
meeting with President-Elect Barack Obama before accepting the vice
presidential nomination. The meetings, possibly over lunch, are
expected to center on foreign policy, constitutional issues, and
cooperation with Congress. Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden was Chair of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee in the Senate and also taught U. S. Constitutional
Law.
Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden will be sworn-in as the 47th vice
president of the United States on January 20, 2009.
Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, toured the vice
presidential residence at the Naval Observatory on November 13, as guests
of the 46th vice president.
1940
November 20, 1942
Senator Joe
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of Joe and
Jean Biden's four children, and attended Saint Paul School in Scranton.
1950
Senator Joe
Biden at 10
Summer 1953
The Biden
family moves from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the Brookview neighborhood of
Claymont, Delaware
Senator Joe
Biden's Yearbook Photo
September 1957
Senator Biden
is enrolled in Archmere Academy, a Catholic Prep school in
Claymont, Delaware
1960
June 1965
Senator Biden
is graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in
History and Political Science and enrolls in Syracuse University Law
School
August 27, 1966
Senator Biden
marries the former Neilia Hunter
June 1968
After being graduated from Syracuse
University Law School, Senator Joe Biden
begins work as a trial attorney in Wilmington, Delaware
February 3, 1969
Birth of Joe and Neilia's first child,
Joseph R. "Beau" Biden, III
1970
February 4, 1970
Birth of Joe and Neilia's second child,
Hunter
November, 1970
Elected to New Castle County Council
November 8, 1971
Birth of third child, Naomi Christina
November, 1972
Joe elected as Delaware's U.S. Senator,
beating an incumbent Republican. At age 29, Joe was the 5th
youngest U.S. Senator ever.
Senator Biden celebrates his 30th birthday
December 18, 1972
While Christmas shopping, Senator Biden's wife, Neilia, and three
children are in an automobile accident. Neilia and Naomi suffer
fatal injuries while Beau and Hunter are critically injured but make full
recoveries.
Senator Joe
Biden with Beau and Hunter
January 5, 1973
After consistent lobbying by Hubert
Humphrey and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urging him not to
resign, Senator Biden is sworn in to
the United States Senate at Beau and Hunter's bedside in Wilmington,
Delaware
January, 1975
Senator Joe
Biden becomes a member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, which he later chairs.
June 17, 1977
Joe marries schoolteacher Jill Tracy Jacobs
Beau, Hunter, Joe, and Jill
January, 1977
Senator Joe
Biden becomes a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which
he chairs from 1987 to 1994
November, 1978
Senator Joe
Biden wins reelection to the U. S. Senate
1980
June 8, 1981
Birth of Joe and Jill's daughter, Ashley
Senator Joe
Biden with daughter, Ashley
November, 1984
Senator Joe Biden
is re-elected to the U.S. Senate
June 9, 1987
Senator Joseph
Biden, Jr. announces his candidacy for the 1988 Democratic
Nomination for President of the United States
Poster of Senator
Joe Biden, Jr.'s 1988 presidentialannouncement
February 11, 1988
Two aneurysms are diagnosed in Senator Biden's brain, and he undergoes
successful emergency surgery
1990
November, 1990
Senator Joe Biden
wins re-election to the U.S. Senate
September, 1991
Senator Joe
Biden begins teaching Constitutional Law as an Adjunct
Professor at Widener University Law School
November, 1996
Senator Joseph
Biden is re-elected to U.S. Senate
Senator Joseph
Biden on the U. S. Senate floor
May 11, 1999
Senator Joe
Biden casts his 10,000th vote on the Senate floor
1990
November, 2002
Senator Joseph
Bidenwins reelection to U.S. Senate
2000
January 31, 2007
Senator Joe
Biden announces his bid for the 2008 Democratic Nomination for
President of the United States
August 1, 2007
Senator Joe
Biden releases his memoir, Promises
to Keep: On Life and Politics
August 23, 2008
Senator Joseph
Biden, Jr. is selected to be the U. S. Democratic Party's Vice
Presidential Presumptive Nominee
August 25, 2008
Senator Joseph Biden is nominated and accepts the Democratic Party's Vice Presidential
nomination
November 4, 2008
Senator Joe Biden becomes Vice President-Elect Joe Biden
Alex Brandon/AP
Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden is congratulated by his wife, Jill,
in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, on election night
Jason Reed/Reuters
Vice
President-Elect Joseph Biden, Jr. holds his granddaughter,
Naomi, in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, on election night. Vice President-Elect Joseph Biden's large
Irish Catholic family attended the ceremony, perhaps as many as 37
relatives.
Vice
President-Elect Joe Biden on his Catholic faith:
"The animating principle of my
faith, as taught to me by Church and home, was that the cardinal sin was
abuse of power. It was not only required as a good Catholic to
abhor and avoid abuse of power but to do something to end that
abuse."
"I get comfort from carrying my
rosary, going to Mass every Sunday."
"I'm very proud to be Catholic.
It's part of my spirituality, part of my identity. When John Kennedy ran
for president, I remember being so proud that he was Catholic. But
he had to prove that he wasn't ruled by his beliefs. I'm with John
Kennedy on the role religion ought to play in politics."
Vice President-Elect
Joseph Biden is a parishioner at Saint Patrick
Church in the Diocese of Wilmington.
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