Finnegan Biden

One of Biden's great-great-great-grandfathers was born in Sussex, England, and emigrated to Maryland in the United States by 1820.

Neilia Hunter Biden, the first wife of Joe Biden, was born on July 28, 1942.

Joe Biden, the 46th and current president of the United States, has family members who are prominent in law, education, activism and politics.

Biden's immediate family became the first family of the United States on his inauguration on January 20, 2021.

Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (née Jacobs, formerly Stevenson), the second and current wife of Joe Biden, was born on June 3, 1951.

The couple married on August 27, 1966.

After the wedding, the Bidens moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden was on the New Castle County Council.

The couple had three children: Joseph Robinette "Beau" III, Robert Hunter and Naomi Christina "Amy".

Biden campaigned to unseat the U.S. Senator from Delaware J. Caleb Boggs; Neilia was described by The News Journal as the "brains" of his victorious campaign.

Joseph "Beau" Robinette Biden III was born on February 3, 1969, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Beau suffered multiple broken bones in the car crash that took the lives of his mother and sister, but he survived after spending several months in a hospital.

On December 18, 1972, while her husband was still a U.S. senator-elect, Neilia was driving with Naomi, Beau, and Hunter to buy a Christmas tree.

Neilia "drove into the path" of a tractor-trailer, "possibly because her head was turned and she didn't see the oncoming truck".

Neilia and the children were taken to Wilmington General Hospital.

Neilia and Naomi died upon arrival, but her two sons survived with serious injuries.

His firstborn daughter, Naomi Christina Biden, died in 1972, in the same car accident as her mother.

Biden was sworn in to the U.S. Senate on January 3, 1973, at the hospital where his sons were being treated.

She met Biden while on a blind date in March 1975.

She and Joe Biden were married by a Catholic priest on June 17, 1977, at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City.

This was four and a half years after his first wife and infant daughter died; Joe had proposed several times before she accepted, as she was wary of entering the public spotlight, anxious to remain focused on her own career, and initially hesitant to take on the commitment of raising his two young sons who had survived the accident.

Joe Biden fathered four children from two marriages.

Beau went on to graduate from Archmere Academy, his father's high school alma mater, and the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

He was also a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law, as was his father.

After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Steven McAuliffe of the United States District Court of New Hampshire.

From 1995 to 2004, he worked at the United States Department of Justice in Philadelphia, first as Counsel to the Office of Policy Development and later as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office.

He married Hallie Olivere in 2002.

In his first bid at political office, Biden ran for Attorney General of Delaware in 2006.

Biden's opponent was a veteran state prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney, Ferris Wharton.

Major issues in the campaign included the candidates' experience and proposed efforts to address sex offenders, Internet predators, senior abuse and domestic abuse.

Biden won the election by approximately five percentage points.

Beau played an active role in his father's 2008 vice presidential campaign, speaking at the Democratic National Convention after Joe Biden was nominated for Vice President of the United States.

He recounted the auto accident that killed his mother and sister and the subsequent parenting commitment his father made to his sons, a speech at which many delegates wept.

His immediate family circle was also the second family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, when Biden was vice president.

Biden's family is mostly descended from the British Isles, with most of their ancestors coming from Ireland and England, and a smaller number descending from the French.

Of Joe Biden's sixteen great-great-grandparents, ten were born in Ireland.

He is descended from the Blewitts of County Mayo and the Finnegans of County Louth.

On November 2, 2010, he was easily re-elected to a second term as Delaware Attorney General, beating Independent Party of Delaware candidate Doug Campbell by a large margin.

For the final few years of his life, Biden suffered from a brain tumor.

His firstborn son, Joseph "Beau" R. Biden III, died in 2015 from brain cancer.

The Bidens' two surviving children include one son from his first marriage, Robert Hunter Biden, and one daughter from his second, Ashley Blazer Biden.