Mandel Ngan / Getty Images Even though many people may be familiar with the current wife of the presidential candidate, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, who among his accomplishments as an author and lecturer, he also served as second lady, during the term of her husband as the president, the entire Obama administration, not too many people may be aware that Joe was married before, to someone else before I get married with Jill, in 1977.
And on the line of the great tragedies that they think they seem to go to one of the political families closest to the royals in america, the Kennedy and the Roosevelts, for example, is the story of how he ended up in the first a wedding of a former vice-president, it seems to be along those lines.
So, who was the first lady, Biden? How he lived and how he died? And if it wasn’t for her, it would be Joe Biden, the political as we know it today, warts and all of that? Averigüemos anything about it.
The first, wife of Joe Biden, Neilia, was the brains behind the operation.
Kevin Larkin / Getty Images In accordance with the The independentNeilia Biden (he is Neilia Hunter, was born in 1942 in the state of New York, into a family of means. He attended the prestigious high school, Penn Hall, Chambersburg, Pa. From which he graduated in 1960, before going on to Syracuse University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. It was during his college years, he met his future wife, and future vice president, Joe Biden, as long as the two were on vacation in the Caribbean during spring break.
After you get your degree, Neilia, followed by a career as an English teacher, while her husband completed school of law and began his political aspirations. While Neilia had traditionally been a republican-registered, it has substantially changed its membership policy, after her marriage to Joe, when you register as a democrat, under his own name after they were married, and became an aide to the president of the campaign for the nearest in his commitment to the Senate of the state of Delaware in 1972, and was coming to be known as the “brains” behind the whole operation, He, in accordance with the The independent.
The Bidens have three children together: two sons, Beau and Hunter, and daughter Naomi, to whom the couple will call her “Amy”. The three children were in the car with her mother one fateful day in 1972, a week before Christmas, and it’s only a couple of days before he take the oath of allegiance to their first appointment to policy-making in large-scale, as a senator for the state of Delaware.
The tragic loss of Neilia Biden told the husband of the continue to
Jerome Delay / Getty Images As for Joe Biden, nomination, presidential democrats today, he told in a speech of 2015 to the class of a graduate of Yale, he received a phone call while I was in Washington, D.C., where he was conducting interviews with potential staff members, such as senator-elect, in December of 1972, a call that will forever change his life. “When I was in Washington dc, hiring a staff, I received a phone call,” he said in a statement. (via Marie Claire) “My wife and three kids were christmas shopping. A truck-trailer hit and killed my wife and my daughter.”
Even though the Hunter and Beau, were taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries, but survived. Neilia and Amy, 13 months, died on the spot, in the middle of the The independent described as “the literature of the campaign of the young senator-elect, of the state of Delaware [littering] on the street.”
Days later, Joe was sworn in as a senator in the hospital at Wilmington, where they were treated, so much the Hunter as the Handsome. In spite of the tremendous loss that has occurred, then a senator just days before his first term in office, Joe has found within himself the strength to go on, it’s all thanks to their children.
“A lot of people have gone through things like that,” he said, gathered together for the graduation ceremony of the Yale-in the year 2015. “But that’s because I’ve had the incredible fortune of an extended family, based on love and loyalty, with a sense of obligation to be given to each and every one of us, not only to have received his help.”
It is by focusing on their children, ” said Joe, “that he found [his] redemption for us.”
