Joe Biden’s Family: His Wives, Kids, Grandkids and More

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Joe Biden’s Family: His Wives, Kids, Grandkids and More

Meet America’s new first family! Throughout his time on the campaign trail ahead of the 2020 election, President Joe Biden’s loved ones were front and center. The former vice president’s wife, Jill Biden, and children Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden often joined Joe as he traveled across the U.S. to make the case for why he should be the country’s next commander in chief. Joe’s family was by his side once again in November 2020 when he defeated President Donald Trump with 306 Electoral College votes. NBC News reported that Joe and Jill were sitting on the patio in the backyard of their Delaware home when their grandchildren rushed outside to inform him that he had been victorious. “Pop, Pop! We won!” they reportedly shouted before giving the future president a group hug, which Joe’s granddaughter Naomi Biden documented with a photo that went viral on Twitter. [sendtonews type="float" key="riipmMx7xf-2835876-14453"] More than 81 million Americans voted for Joe, breaking his former boss Barack Obama’s 2008 popular vote record. Trump, meanwhile, received more than 74 million votes as the incumbent. Since Joe first ran for office in 1972, when he was elected to the U.S. Senate, he has been described by many as a family man through and through. He faced tragedy early on when his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, and their three children, Beau Biden, Hunter and Amy Biden, were involved in a car accident in December 1972. 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 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 the English professor in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. “She made me start to think my family might be whole again.” Scroll down to meet the the 46th president’s family! [podcast_block]

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Joe Biden’s Family: His Wives, Kids, Grandkids and More

Meet America’s new first family! Throughout his time on the campaign trail ahead of the 2020 election, President Joe Biden’s loved ones were front and center. The former vice president’s wife, Jill Biden, and children Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden often joined Joe as he traveled across the U.S. to make the case for why he should be the country’s next commander in chief. Joe’s family was by his side once again in November 2020 when he defeated President Donald Trump with 306 Electoral College votes. NBC News reported that Joe and Jill were sitting on the patio in the backyard of their Delaware home when their grandchildren rushed outside to inform him that he had been victorious. “Pop, Pop! We won!” they reportedly shouted before giving the future president a group hug, which Joe’s granddaughter Naomi Biden documented with a photo that went viral on Twitter. [sendtonews type="float" key="riipmMx7xf-2835876-14453"] More than 81 million Americans voted for Joe, breaking his former boss Barack Obama’s 2008 popular vote record. Trump, meanwhile, received more than 74 million votes as the incumbent. Since Joe first ran for office in 1972, when he was elected to the U.S. Senate, he has been described by many as a family man through and through. He faced tragedy early on when his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, and their three children, Beau Biden, Hunter and Amy Biden, were involved in a car accident in December 1972. 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 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 the English professor in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. “She made me start to think my family might be whole again.” Scroll down to meet the the 46th president’s family! [podcast_block]

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Joseph Biden Sr. and Jean Biden

Joe was born in Pennsylvania in November 1942 to Joseph Biden Sr. and Jean Biden (pictured), who had married the year before. His father died in September 2002 at age 86, and his mother died in January 2010 at age 92.

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Valerie Biden Owens, Frank Biden and Jim Biden

Joe is the oldest of four siblings. His sister, Valerie Biden Owens (pictured), has played a substantial role in all of his political campaigns dating back to his first Senate run. Valerie served as a U.S. senior adviser to the United Nations General Assembly and is the vice chair of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. Joe and Valerie have two younger brothers, Frank and Jim Biden.

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Neilia Hunter Biden

After meeting in the Bahamas, Joe and his first wife married in August 1966. They welcomed sons Beau and Hunter (pictured) in February 1969 and February 1970 and daughter Amy in November 1971. Like Jill, Neilia worked as a teacher and played an integral role in Joe’s political career. The New York native and Amy died in December 1972 on their way to buy a Christmas tree with Beau and Hunter. Neilia was 30.

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Jill Biden

Born Jill Jacobs, Joe’s second wife grew up in Pennsylvania and went on to obtain degrees from the University of Delaware, West Chester University and Villanova University. She worked as a high school English teacher for 13 years in addition to teaching disabled children at a psychiatric hospital. She made the move to higher education in 1993, when she became an instructor at Delaware Technical & Community College. She has worked as a professor at Northern Virginia Community College since 2009.

Jill was previously married to Bill Stevenson from February 1970 to May 1975. After tying the knot with Joe in June 1977, she became a stepmother to his surviving kids, Beau and Hunter, before giving birth to daughter Ashley. During her time as second lady from 2009 to 2017, Jill worked to bring awareness to military families and breast cancer prevention. She has vowed to continue working full-time as a teacher while serving as FLOTUS, making her the first to do so.

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Beau Biden

Born Joseph Biden III, Beau followed in his father’s footsteps with a career in public service. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University College of Law, he joined the military and served in Iraq from 2008 to 2009. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service. Beau was elected the 44th attorney general of Delaware in 2006 and held the title until 2015.

Beau married Hallie Biden (née Olivere) in November 2002, and they welcomed daughter Natalie in August 2004 and son Hunter (named after his uncle) in 2006. Beau decided not to seek a third term as attorney general after being diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2013. He succumbed to the disease in May 2015 at age 46.

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Hunter Biden

Born Robert Hunter Biden, Joe’s second eldest child is a graduate of Georgetown University and Yale University, where he obtained a law degree. He is a founding partner of the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners and served on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019.

While volunteering at a church in Oregon in 1993, Hunter met Kathleen Biden (née Buhle), whom he married later that year. The pair went on to welcome three children together, Naomi, Finnegan and Maisy, before separating in October 2015 and divorcing in April 2017. In the midst of their split, Hunter entered into a two-year relationship with his late brother Beau’s widow, Hallie. Joe and Jill gave their blessing to the unconventional romance, saying in a statement at the time, “We are happy for them.”

Hunter, who has been open about struggling with drugs and alcohol in the past, went on to have children with stripper Lunden Roberts and filmmaker Melissa Cohen, whom he married in May 2019. His youngest child is named Beau after his late brother.

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Ashley Biden

Joe and Jill’s only child together attended private school in Delaware before studying cultural anthropology at Tulane University in Louisiana. She went on to get a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania. Ashley served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019 and founded the fashion company Livelihood in 2017.

Ashley met her husband, Howard Krein, in 2010 after being introduced by her half-brother Beau. She married the plastic surgeon in June 2012.

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Natalie Biden and Hunter Biden

Beau and Hallie’s children recited the Pledge of Allegiance in a video that played during the 2020 Democratic National Convention. “Pop told us that this election would be totally different from any other election ever,” Natalie said at the time. “He was worried how it would affect his kids.”

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Naomi Biden

When Hunter and Kathleen’s firstborn daughter graduated from Columbia Law School in May 2020, Joe delivered a keynote address at the ceremony. Naomi later tweeted, “I am proud to be your granddaughter every single day @JoeBiden.”

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Finnegan Biden

Hunter and Kathleen’s second daughter got her name from Joe’s late mother, whose maiden name was Finnegan. She is a student at the University of Pennsylvania, the alma mater of many of her relatives.

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Maisy Biden

Naomi and Finnegan’s younger sister, Maisy, plays basketball and is best friends with Obama’s daughter Sasha Obama, her former classmate at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.

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Cuffe Biden Owens

Cuffe Owens is the eldest son of Biden’s younger sister and political confidante, Valerie Biden Owens, and John T. Owens, an attorney and former classmate of the president. The former VP's nephew has two younger sisters, Missy Owens and Casey Owens Castello.

Like his father, Cuffe is an attorney who attended Georgetown University for undergrad and went to the University of Southern California for law school. He was admitted into the California bar in 2009.

Unlike many of his relatives, Cuffe managed to keep a low profile until it was revealed that he was dating The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Meghan King in September 2021. Less than one month after making their relationship Instagram official, the two were married in a “small family wedding” attended by POTUS and the first lady.