Joe Biden fathered four children from two marriages. His firstborn daughter (third child), Naomi Christina Biden, died in December 1972, in the same car accident as her mother. His firstborn son and first child, Joseph "Beau" R. Biden III, died in May 2015 from
brain cancer. The Bidens' two surviving children include one son from his first marriage, Robert Hunter Biden, and one daughter from his second,
Ashley Blazer Biden. where he was a member of the
Psi Upsilon fraternity. He was also a graduate of
Syracuse University College of Law, as was his father. After graduating from law school, he
clerked for Judge
Steven McAuliffe of the United States District Court of New Hampshire. From 1995 to 2004, he worked at the
United States Department of Justice in Philadelphia, first as Counsel to the Office of Policy Development and later as a federal prosecutor in the
U.S. Attorney's Office. He married
Hallie Olivere in 2002. Beau played an active role in his father's 2008 vice presidential campaign, speaking at the
Democratic National Convention after Joe Biden was nominated for Vice President of the United States. He recounted the auto accident that killed his mother and sister and the subsequent parenting commitment his father made to his sons, a speech at which many delegates wept. On November 2, 2010, he was easily reelected to a second term as Delaware Attorney General, beating
Independent Party of Delaware candidate Doug Campbell by a large margin. For the final few years of his life, Biden suffered from a brain tumor. In May 2010, he was admitted to
Christiana Hospital in
Newark, Delaware, after complaining of a headache, numbness, and paralysis. Officials said he had suffered a "mild stroke". Later that month, Biden was transferred to
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in
Philadelphia and kept for observation for several days. A lesion was removed at that time. Biden had radiation and chemotherapy treatments and the cancer remained stable. On May 20, 2015, he was admitted to
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, because of a recurrence of brain cancer. He died there ten days later, on May 30, 2015, at the age of 46. His funeral was held at
St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in
Wilmington, Delaware, on June 6, 2015. He was buried at
St. Joseph's on the Brandywine in
Greenville, Delaware.
Hunter Biden Robert Hunter Biden was born on February 4, 1970, in Wilmington, Delaware. Along with his mother and siblings, he was in the 1972 crash, sustaining injuries to his skull. Along with his older brother, he survived after receiving months of medical treatment. Like his father and brother, Hunter attended Archmere Academy in
Claymont, Delaware. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from
Georgetown University in 1992. During the year after he graduated from college, he served as a
Jesuit volunteer at a church in
Portland, Oregon, and met
Kathleen Buhle, whom he married in 1993. After attending
Georgetown University Law Center for one year, he transferred to
Yale Law School and graduated in 1996. He and Kathleen divorced in 2017 and, in 2019, he married Melissa Cohen. After law school, Hunter accepted a position at
bank holding company
MBNA America, a major contributor to his father's political campaigns. By 1998, Biden had risen to the rank of executive vice president. During the
2020 election, the Trump administration pointed out that Hunter Biden had connections with the Ukrainian
holding company Burisma. In September 2024, Hunter Biden, pleaded guilty to all nine charges in his federal tax evasion case, surprising prosecutors as they prepared for trial. He previously denied deliberately evading $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019. Biden had been indicted with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor offenses, which included tax evasion and filing false returns. Facing up to 17 years in prison, Biden was set for sentencing on December 16, 2024. On December 1, 2024, President Biden issued a
full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter. The pardon covered all federal offenses committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024, and included his tax charges, gun charges, and any other potential crimes committed within that time. The pardon received bipartisan criticism from members of Congress as harming the justice system. In the months leading up to Hunter's scheduled sentencing, the President had made repeated statements that he would not use the pardon authority for his own son. He and his staff continued to state that there would be no pardon for Hunter as late as November, although internal staff discussions affirmed that the option for a pardon would remain on the table even as Biden publicly stated otherwise.
Naomi "Amy" Biden Naomi Christina Biden, nicknamed "Amy", was born on November 8, 1971, in Wilmington, Delaware. She died in the same
car crash as her mother,
Neilia, on December 18, 1972, when she was just over a year old. When she was in elementary school, she discovered that the cosmetics company
Bonne Bell tested its products on animals. She wrote a letter to the company asking them to change their policy on animal testing. She later got involved in dolphin conservation, inspiring her father to work with Congresswoman
Barbara Boxer to write and pass the 1990 Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act. Ashley Biden made an appearance before members of the
United States Congress to lobby for the legislation. She is married to physician
Howard Krein. ==Grandchildren==