When he was re-elected in 2010, Beau Biden increased his winning margin to 149,000 votes over his Republican competitor.ĭuring his time in office, Biden took aggressive tactics to tamp down on child sex crimes perpetrators, netting 180 convictions. attorney’s office in Philadelphia for nine years, and briefly working in private practice, Biden won his first election for attorney general in 2006 by 13,000 votes. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania and attended law school at Syracuse University.Īfter serving as a prosecutor in the U.S. “She’s an incredible mother.”īeau Biden grew up in Delaware and graduated from the same Catholic high school as his father. “My mom came along – I have two moms now – who came along in 1977 and rebuilt our family, and helped my dad rebuild our family,” Beau Biden told CNN in 2012. They had stories at bedtime, games of catch on the lawn, outings, trips, places to go.”īeau and Hunter encouraged their father to remarry, and in 1977 Jill Jacobs, now Jill Biden, wife of the vice president, became their stepmother. “Joe didn’t want anybody else raising his kids, thanks.
Joe Biden was sworn in as senator at his sons’ hospital bedside a few weeks later, and according to the 1988 political biography “What It Takes,” by Richard Ben Cramer, the first-term lawmaker threw himself headlong into single parenthood. He and his younger brother Hunter were injured but survived the accident, which occurred when a truck careened into the car the family was riding in. The crash also took the life of Joe Biden’s first wife, Neilia, who was Beau’s mother.īeau Biden was 2 years old when his mother was killed in the crash. A Democrat like his father, he served for two terms, and announced in 2014 he wouldn’t seek another four years in office as he prepared a run for governor.īeau Biden is the second of Joe Biden’s children to precede their father in death the vice president’s 1-year-old daughter Naomi was killed in a Christmastime car accident in 1972. Throughout his 20 health episodes, Beau Biden continued serving as Delaware’s attorney general, a position to which he was first elected in 2006. He survived wreck that claimed mother, sister Jill Biden, Beau Biden is survived by his wife, Hallie two children, Natalie and Hunter a brother, also named Hunter and a half-sister, Ashley. He died Saturday evening, surrounded by his extended family.Īside from Vice President and Dr.
The cancer returned this spring and Biden pursued aggressive treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, the vice president’s office said. He was diagnosed with brain cancer, and after undergoing surgery was given a clean bill of health. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston after he became disoriented and weak while on vacation.
“Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known,” his father wrote in a statement.īiden had suffered known health problems dating back to 2010, when he experienced a stroke that did not affect his motor skills or speech. He died after battling brain cancer, according to the vice president’s office. Joseph “Beau” Biden III, an Iraq War veteran who served as the attorney general of Delaware and was a son of Vice President Joe Biden, died Saturday at age 46, the White House said in a statement.
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