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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. Since 20 January 2009, he added 47th Vice President of the United States, the government of President Barack Obama to.

The Professor of Law from 1973 to 2009 was a member of the U.S. Senate and represented there, the U.S. state of Delaware.

Early career, life and family

Biden was born in Scranton (Pennsylvania), the son of Joseph R. Biden, Sr. and Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan. He has two brothers, James Brian Biden and Francis W. Biden, and a sister, Valerie (Biden) Owens. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to Claymont , where he grew up in suburban New Castle County. Biden's father worked as a car salesman. In 1961, Biden joined the Catholic Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware , and in 1965 he graduated from the University of Delaware in Newark focused on the areas history and political science. Biden received his PhD in 1968 at the College of Law at Syracuse University and a doctorate in law from 1969 working as a lawyer in Delaware. Since 1991 he leads a seminar on American Constitutional Law at Widener University School of Law.

On 27 August 1966 Biden married his high school sweetheart Neilia Hunter in Skaneateles, New York. They had three children: Joseph Robinette III (born 1969), Robert Hunter (b. 1970) and Naomi Christina (born 1971). On 18 December 1972 came Neilia and Naomi died in a road accident when a truck collided with them. The two sons who were also in the car survived injured. On 17 June 1977 in New York City Biden married Jill Tracy Jacobs, with whom he has another daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden (b. 1981). Both Joe and Jill Tracy is Catholic.

Political Career

Senator Joe Biden (1979) with his colleague Frank Church and the Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat

Biden came to 1973 to his first term as U.S. senator and has since won five more elections. As a regular rail riders where he represented the interests of Amtrak and sees itself as representing the interests of the Dover U.S. Airforce Base and the chicken processing industry of Delaware. As a speaker he is known for his articulate and emotional, though often long speeches. For many years he was in the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in the latter he was most recently chairman.

In his Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995 Chairman and from 1981 to 1987 and from 1995 to 1997 as the Ranking Minority Member. During his tenure as chairman of the highly controversial appointment of conservative Supreme Court judge Robert Bork (1987 were rejected by the Senate) and Clarence Thomas (1991).

He was instrumental in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (1994), the restricted weapons, expanded the death penalty at the federal level and a number of new crimes in the area of federal immigration authorities, defined as certain crimes, Hate Crimes, Volume crime or sexual crimes. Part of the law was the Violence Against Women Act, which expanded the rights of women. He also was in 2003 Author of the RAVE Act (Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act), took the action because of its very comprehensive critique of the electronic music scene in .

As chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus, Biden wrote the laws that the U.S. "Drogenzar" incumbent, who coordinates the anti-drug policy of the United States. As a member of the Committee shall be Biden and for further action against flunitrazepam, MDMA (ecstasy), ketamine and steroids .

Abroad, he was early supporters of an active and, if necessary, violent U.S. foreign policy in the Balkans. He called early on for a war criminal Slobodan Milošević, was an advocate to lift the arms embargo against the enemies of the Serbs and Bosnian Muslims in military training. His commitment to the NATO air strikes was to convince a decisive factor Bill Clinton of this option .

After the attacks of 11 September supported Biden, U.S. President George W. Bush and called for more ground troops in Afghanistan, he also agreed with the assessment that Saddam Hussein had to be eliminated. In the Senate, he voted for the final resolution to the Iraq war, regretted this decision as other leading Democrats, but today.

Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidate

Joe Biden with Barack Obama in Springfield, Illinois, after the official presentation as a vice presidential candidate


In the 1988 presidential election Biden got out of the race after plagiarism charges were leveled against him. He had copied a speech by British Labor leader Neil Kinnock, the details of the personal life contained in Kinnock's case, agreed with Biden did not. In 2004, he was due to his experience as a possible secretary of state under a President John Kerry.

For the 2008 presidential elections he was regarded since 2004 as a potential Democratic candidate, and declared on 27 March 2006 that he would seek. After he was able to unite in the Democratic primaries in Iowa barely one percent of the vote, Biden said his withdrawal from the race for the U.S. presidential election 2008th 7

On 23 August Barack Obama told him the vice presidential candidates. On 4 November 2008 went out Obama and Biden as the winner in the election. Biden was on 20 January 2009 sworn in as vice president.

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