Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden briefly worked as an attorney before turning to politics.
Here are some lesser-known facts about Joe Biden:
- Raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware, Joe Biden studied at the University of Delaware before receiving his law degree from Syracuse University.
- He has a stutter, which was more prominent in his childhood. He says he has helped to reduce it by spending many hours reciting poetry in front of a mirror.
- As a public defender in Delaware, he defended a fisherman who stole a prize-winning Holstein cow
- Joe Biden served as the 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
- He served as a United States Senator for Delaware from 1973 to 2009.
- He became a lawyer in 1969 and was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970.
- In 2017, Biden received the Congressional Patriot Award from the Bipartisan Policy Center in recognition of his work crafting bipartisan legislation with Republicans and Democrats.
- In 2017, Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill formed the nonprofit group – The Biden Foundation – to further the work the Bidens did over 8 years in the Obama administration and cement the former vice president’s more than 4-decade legacy in public life.
