Joe Biden

Biden is the 19th Vice President to run for the U.S. presidency and the 6th to have been elected after, John Adams (1796), Thomas Jefferson (1800), Martin Van Buren (1836), Richard Nixon (1968) and George Bush (1988).

He is the first U.S. President since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 whose predecessor (Donald Trump) did not attend his inauguration.

The first US president from the Silent Generation (1928-1945), following 28 years of Baby Boomer presidents.

Third youngest person ever elected as a U.S. senator in history, several weeks before his 30th birthday. His wife and small daughter were killed in a car crash around the same time.

Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA as Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

He is the first US presidential candidate to win the election without carrying Ohio since John F. Kennedy in 1960.

U.S. senator from Delaware, January 3, 1973-January 15, 2009. He was simultaneously elected as a U.S. senator and vice president in November 2008. He resigned 12 days into his Senate term to become vice president of the United States.

He is the first older challenger to defeat an incumbent president since Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980. Biden was 77 when he beat Trump who was 74. In 1980, Ronald Reagan was 69 when he trounced Jimmy Carter who was 56.

Father of Ashley Biden (born 1981) and father-in-law of Dr. Howard David Brein (born in 1967).

Sought the 1988 Democratic nomination for president in 1987, but had to drop out in September of that year when it came to light that he had lifted part of a speech given by British politician Neil Kinnock during his campaign. It was an aide to fellow presidential candidate (and eventual Democratic nominee for 1988) Michael Dukakis who leaked videotapes of Biden giving the speech. Biden had cited Kinnock as the source of the passage while giving the speech on earlier occasions, but on several later occasions did not.

He is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia since Bill Clinton in 1992, as well as the first Democrat to win any statewide election there since 2006.

Smashed election records, earning more votes than any presidential candidate in US history. Former President Barack Obama held the record since 2008.

Was sworn in as the 47th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 2009.

His mother, Jean Finnegan Biden, died on January 8, 2010 at the age of 92.

His address at the 2012 Democratic Convention was the most watched speech of either party's convention, including those of the presidential candidates themselves.

One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. (2013).

Was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom by President Obama.[Jan 2017].

He is an actor, known for John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018), Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991) and Great Performances (1971).

He launched his candidacy for the 2020 U.S. presidential election on April 25, 2019, his third run.

He is the oldest major party presidential nominee in American history, being 77 years old on Election Day 2020, and two weeks shy of his 78th birthday. Bob Dole was previously the oldest first-time nominee at age 73 years, 3 months in 1996, and Ronald Reagan was the oldest nominee ever, at age 73 years, 9 months in 1984. Biden's opponent Donald Trump simultaneously became the second oldest, at age 74.