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Robinette Biden, Jr., was born November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of four siblings. In 1953, the Biden family moved from Pennsylvania to Claymont, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School and served on the New Castle County Council. Then, at age 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate.</p> <p> Just weeks after the election, tragedy struck the Biden family, when Biden's wife, Neilia, and their 1-year old daughter, Naomi, were killed and their two young sons critically injured in an auto accident. Vice President Biden was sworn in to the U.S. Senate at his sons' hospital bedside and began commuting to Washington every day by train, a practice he maintained throughout his career in the Senate.</p> <p> In 1977, Vice President Biden married Jill Jacobs. Jill Biden, who holds a Ph.D. in Education, has been an educator for over two decades and currently teaches at a DC-area community college. The Vice President has three children: Beau, Hunter, and Ashley. Beau serves as Delaware's Attorney General and recently returned home from Iraq where he served as a Captain in the 261st Signal Brigade of the Delaware National Guard. Ashley is a social worker and Hunter is an attorney. Vice President Biden has five grandchildren: Naomi, Finnegan, Roberta Mabel ("Maisy"), Natalie, and Robert Hunter.</p> <p> As a Senator from Delaware for 36 years, Senator Biden established himself as a leader on some of our nation's most important domestic and international challenges. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee for 17 years, then-Senator Biden was widely recognized for his work on criminal justice issues including the landmark 1994 Crime Bill and the Violence Against Women Act. As Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee since 1997, then-Senator Biden played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. foreign policy. He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.</p> <p> Now, as the 47<sup>th</sup> Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden has continued his leadership on important issues facing the nation.  The Vice President was tasked with implementing the <a href="/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/recovery/">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act</a>, helping to rebuild our economy and lay the foundation for a sustainable economic future. He is also the chair of the administration’s <a href="/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/strongmiddleclass/">Middle Class Task Force</a>, a major White House initiative targeted at raising the living standards of middle class families in America. In addition, he is providing sustained, high level focus for the administration on Iraq policy and has traveled to the country multiple times since being elected as Vice President.  Vice President Biden continues to draw on his vast foreign policy experience, advising the President on a multitude of international issues and representing our country to many regions of the world, including travel to Germany, Belgium, Chile, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Lebanon, Georgia, Ukraine, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/vice-president-biden-visits-iraq">Iraq</a>, Poland, Romania, the Czech Republic, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/03/12/vice-president-middle-east">Israel</a>, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Spain, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/07/board-vice-president-and-second-lady-egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/09/board-with-vp-day-3-kenya">Kenya</a>, South Africa, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/01/11/vice-president-biden-afghanistan-it-s-afghans-who-must-build-their-nation">Afghanistan</a>, Pakistan, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/03/08/vice-president-commemorates-international-women-s-day-finland">Finland</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011601/http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/03/10/building-reset-vice-president-s-visit-moscow">Russia</a>, and 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