Dear-Joe-Biden! Heartfelt-&-Warmest-Congratulations-On-Your-Well-Deserved-Success-and-Best-Wishes
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˈbaɪdən/ BY-dən; born November 20,
1942) is an American politician who is the president-elect of the United States.
Biden defeated incumbent president Donald Trump in
the 2020 presidential election.
A member of the Democratic Party, Biden
served as the 47th vice president from
2009 to 2017. He represented Delaware in
the United States Senate from 1973 to
2009.
Raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware, Biden studied
at the University of Delaware before earning
his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was
elected a New Castle County Councilor in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest
senator in American history when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, at the age
of 29. Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
and eventually became its chairman. He opposed the Gulf War in
1991 and supported expanding the NATO alliance
into Eastern Europe and its intervention in
the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He supported
the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in
2002, and later opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. He also
chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987
to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties
issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and
oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings,
including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1988 and again in 2008-source wikipedia.org
Dear-Joe-Biden! Heartfelt-&-Warmest-Congratulations-On-Your-Well-Deserved-Success-and-Best-Wishes
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