Bio \Joe Biden

Name: Joseph Robinette Biden

Age: 65

Birth date/location: Nov. 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pa.

Experience: U.S. senator, 1972-present; New Castle County council, 1970-72; sought presidential nomination, 1988, 2008.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in history and political science, University of Delaware, 1965; law degree, Syracuse University, 1968.

Family: Married Neilia Hunter in 1966; three children, Beau, Hunter and Naomi. His wife and daughter Naomi died in a car crash in 1972. Married Jill Jacobs in 1977; one daughter, Ashley. Beau Biden is now Delaware’s attorney general.

Quote: “Here you have for the first time in all American history a woman or African-American poised to be the next president, and there’s no way to break through that,” Biden said days after ending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.