Joe Biden trivia | 45 facts about the American politician

Joe Biden is an American politician who is in the run to become the next president of the USA.

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career thus far.

1. His full name is Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
2. He was born on November 20, 1942
3. He is an American politician
4. He is in the lead to become the current 46th president-elect of the United States
5. If this happens he will have won Republican incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 presidendtial election
6. He previously served as the 47th vice president of the United States under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017
7. He is a member of the Democratic Party
8. He served as a United States senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009
9. He was raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware
10. Biden studied at the University of Delaware
11. He earned his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968
12. He was elected a New Castle County Councillor in 1970
13. Biden became the sixth-youngest senator in American history when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972
14. Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
15. He, eventually, became its chairman
16. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991
17. But supported expanding the NATO alliance into Eastern Europe and its intervention in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s
18. He supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002
19. He opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007
20. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues
21. He led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act
22. Biden oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas
23. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and again in 2008
24. Biden was reelected to the Senate six times
25. He was the fourth-most senior senator when he resigned to serve as Obama’s vice president after they won the 2008 presidential election
26. Obama and Biden were reelected in 2012
27. As vice president, Biden oversaw infrastructure spending in 2009 to counteract the Great Recession
28. His negotiations with congressional Republicans helped pass legislation including the 2010 Tax Relief Act, which resolved a taxation deadlock
29. The Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a debt ceiling crisis
30. And the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending “fiscal cliff”
31. He also led efforts to pass the United States–Russia New START treaty, supported military intervention in Libya, and helped formulate U.S. policy toward Iraq through the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011
32. Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting he led the Gun Violence Task Force
33. In January 2017, Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction
34. In April 2019, Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election
35. He reached the delegate threshold needed to secure the Democratic nomination in June 2020
36. On August 11, he announced U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate
37. On December 18, 1972, Biden’s wife Neilia and their one-year-old daughter Amy were killed in an automobile accident in Hockessin, Delaware
38. Biden’s sons Beau and Hunter respectively suffered a broken leg and a minor skull fracture
39. Doctors predicted they would recover fully
40. Biden considered resigning to care for them
41. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield persuaded him not to
42. Biden credits his second wife, teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs, with the renewal of his interest in politics and life
43. They met in 1975 on a blind date arranged by Biden’s brother
44. They were married at the United Nations chapel in New York on June 17, 1977
45. Their daughter Ashley Blazer was born in 1981