November 20, 1942

Wilmington, Delaware

Scranton, Pennsylvania

B.A. from University of Delaware (1965), J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law (1968)

Senior US Senator from Delaware

Currently the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee; spent 16 years as the Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee; authored the Biden Crime Law, signed by President Clinton in 1994, which provided federal resources for crime prevention, enforcement, and corrections; wrote the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which is the first federal law to address gender-based crimes; authored a 1996 law establishing a national FBI database to track the whereabouts and movements of convicted sex offenders and requiring sexually violent predators and repeat offenders to register for life as sex offenders in their states of residence; wrote the laws that created the nation's "Drug Czar."

New Castle County Council in 1970, US Senate in 1972

Wife Jill Tracy Biden, three children, Beau, Hunter, and Ashley, and five grandchildren

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