Joe Biden was one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate at the age of 29. Today at 78, Biden is the oldest person to assume the U.S. presidency.
Beau Biden was 46 when he lost his fight to brain cancer. In a striking coincidence, his father Joe Biden on Wednesday took his oath as the United States’ 46th President.
Survived by his wife Hallie and children Natalie and Robert, Beau served in the military after college, and won a Bronze Star. While serving as attorney general of Delaware, he announced that he would run for governor in 2016, until his diagnosis cut his burgeoning political career short.
A day before his inauguration, Biden had visited the National Guard center named after his late son. The death in 2015 was the reason why the then-Vice President Biden didn’t seek the White House in 2016.
At every stage of President Biden’s candidacy, his late son Beau Biden was on his mind. Biden even disclosed that he selected vice president Kamala Harris in part because Beau liked and trusted her. On the eve of his inauguration, Biden gave an emotional farewell speech to the state of Delaware, saying through tears: “Ladies and gentleman, I only have one regret: He’s not here. Because we should be introducing him as president.”
Biden became emotional during the brief farewell ceremony and said, “When I die, Delaware will be written on my heart.”
The 78-year old served Delaware as a senator for more than 30 years and had also run for president unsuccessfully two times before winning.
Notably, his eldest son Beau was also critically injured along with brother Hunter in an accident that killed Biden’s ex-wife Neilia and daughter Naomi.
The tragedy struck him weeks after he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate at the age of 29.
He was sworn in to the US Senate at his sons’ hospital bedsides.
Today at 78, Biden is the oldest person to assume the U.S. presidency.
Sources: Marieclaire and zeenews.india
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