Joe Biden’s incredible career in 16 images and facts

At 78, Joe Biden becomes the oldest U.S. president in history. His father died at 86 and his mother at 92.

In the ’60s, he was a football player at Archmere Academy, catching 19 touchdown passes!

Joe Biden represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate for 36 years. He was first elected in 1972 at the age of 29.

When he met the mother of his first wife, Neilia Hunter, she asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up. He replied: to become President of the United States.

In 1987, he ran for President of the United States for the first time.

He married his first wife Neilia Hunter in 1966. They had two sons, Beau (1969) and Hunter (1970), and a daughter, Naomi (1971). Neilia and Naomi died in a car accident in December 1972.

In 1977, he married an English teacher, Jill Tracy Jacobs, whom he had met on a blind date arranged by his brother.

He has always kept a 1967 Corvette Stingray that his father gave him as a wedding present.

In 2008, he ran again for President of the United States. Barack Obama will be preferred to him.

However, he will become Obama’s main ally and the new Vice-President of the United States.

The alliance gives way to one of the most beautiful bromances in American culture.

In 2016, Barack Obama advised him not to run for president, making way for Hillary Clinton, who was defeated by Donald Trump.

Joe Biden is still feeling the call of the presidency… and is trying to block a second term for Donald Trump in 2020.

Against all odds and after several days of vote counting that kept the world on the edge, Joe Biden became the 46th President of the United States.

He thus ousts Trump from the White House, strengthened by his new alliance with his own vice-president, Kamala Harris.

Then, in July 2024, Joe Biden renounced his bid for a second term, making way for the same Kamala Harris to take on… Donald Trump. Biden ends one of the most spectacular political careers in history.