46th President of the United States Joe Biden (official Portrait, 2021) Incumbent Assumed office: January 20, 2021 Vice President: Kamala Harris Preceded by: Donald Trump 47th Vice President of the United States In office: January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017 President: Barack Obama Preceded by: Dick Cheney Succeeded by: Mike Pence United States Senator from Delaware In office: January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009 Preceded by: J. Caleb Boggs Succeeded by: Ted Kaufman Personal details Born: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. November 20, 1942 (age 78) Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S. Political party: Democratic (1969–present) Other political affiliations Independent (before 1969) Spouse(s): Neilia Hunter ​(m. 1966; died 1972)​ Jill Jacobs ​(m. 1977)​ Children BeauHunter Naomi Ashley Parents Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Relatives Biden family Education: University of Delaware (BA) Syracuse University (JD) Occupation Politician lawyer author Awards List of honors and awards Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˈbaɪdən/ BY-dən; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009. Born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and later in New Castle County, Delaware, Biden studied at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest senator ever when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, at age 29. Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and eventually became its chairman. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008. Biden was reelected to the Senate six times, and was the fourth-most senior senator when he became Obama's vice president after they won the 2008 presidential election. During eight years as vice president, Biden leaned on his Senate experience and frequently represented the administration in negotiations with congressional Republicans, including on the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved a debt ceiling crisis, and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which addressed the impending "fiscal cliff". He also oversaw infrastructure spending in 2009 to counteract the Great Recession. On foreign policy, Biden was a close counselor to the president and took a leading role in designing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011. In 2017, Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, making him the first president to receive it before taking office. On April 25, 2019, Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election. He became the presumptive Democratic nominee in April 2020 and reached the delegate threshold needed to secure the nomination in June 2020. Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris defeated incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence in the general election. Biden is the oldest elected president, the first from Delaware, and the second Catholic. His early presidential activity centered around proposing, lobbying for, and signing into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help speed up the United States' recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, as well as a series of executive orders. Biden's orders addressed the pandemic and reversed several Trump administration policies, including rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change, reaffirming protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, halting construction of the Trump border wall, ending the Trump travel ban imposed on predominantly Muslim countries, and revoking permits for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. At 78, he is the oldest person to have assumed the office. He is the second Catholic president (after John F. Kennedy) and the first president whose home state is Delaware. He is the second non-incumbent vice president (after Richard Nixon in 1968) to be elected president. In his first two days as president, Biden signed 17 executive orders, more than most recent presidents did in their first 100 days. By his third day, orders had included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the state of national emergency at the border with Mexico, directing the government to rejoin the World Health Organization, face mask requirements on federal property, measures to combat hunger in the United States, and revoking permits for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. In his first two weeks in office, Biden signed more executive orders than any other president since Franklin D. Roosevelt had in their first month in office. On February 4, 2021, the Biden administration announced that the United States was ending its support for the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen. In his first visit to the State Department as president, Biden said "this war has to end" and that the conflict had created a "humanitarian and strategic catastrophe". On February 25, the Biden administration "struck a site in Syria used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks". This marked the first known action by the military under Biden. Biden later, pulled troops out of Afganistan, also a catatrophe, leaving many Americans and Allies to find their own way out of the region if and where possible. possible. Back in America and the Western World, this did not go down well with Western officials and the public. Note: (From website Author: This election was surrounded by contraversy concerning the methods used in securing Bidens position to reach the Presidency through bias means and through far left-wing media, violence from the far left: BLM, Anfita and others to the rigging of voting machines. Many observing throughout the world concluded that this election was a suspected takeover or Coup, however Trump stepped down quietly, after protesting as with many of a supporting majority and chose to ready to fight for 2024 election. Many of us still don't know how this corrupt situation managed to take place within the Western Democracy and many can only put this down to money and power from large industry, tech, Pharma, Shadow Government and possible interference outside of the USA. However there is support for this view and it has now been substanciated within 2022.