Joe Biden’s family has become somewhat accustomed to being in the spotlight, both before and after he moved into the White House.
The same year Biden won his U.S. Senate seat in 1972, his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, and their three children, Beau, Hunter and Naomi ‘Amy’ Biden, were involved in a car accident. Neilia and 13-month-old Amy were killed in the crash, while Beau and Hunter survived with serious injuries.
After a period of grieving, Joe’s brother Frank Biden set him up on a blind date with Jill Biden, née Jacobs, in 1975. The couple married two years later and welcomed their daughter, Ashley, in June 1981.
“She gave me back my life,” the politician wrote of Jill in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. “She made me start to think my family might be whole again.”
Joe was elected as the 46th president of the United States in 2020 but dropped out of the 2024 presidential race to endorse his Vice President, Kamala Harris. Harris ultimately lost the election to Donald Trump.
During the final month of his presidency, Joe made history after becoming the great-grandfather to serve as president.
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