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Joe Biden is the 46th president of the United States, serving from 2021 to 2025. Prior to his presidency, he served as the vice president under Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017. Biden's family origins trace predominantly to the British Isles, with ancestors mainly from Ireland and England, and a smaller number from France. Among his sixteen great-great-grandparents, ten were born in Ireland, specifically the Blewitts of County Mayo and the Finnegans of County Louth. One of his great-great-great-grandfathers was born in Sussex, England, and immigrated to Maryland by 1820.

Biden's immediate family includes his spouses and children. His first wife was Neilia Hunter Biden, born on July 28, 1942. The couple married on August 27, 1966, and moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where Biden was a member of the New Castle County Council. They had three children: Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III, Robert Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christina "Amy" Biden. Neilia was considered the "brains" behind Biden's 1972 campaign to unseat U.S. Senator J. Caleb Boggs. On December 18, 1972, Neilia, Naomi, and the children were involved in a fatal car accident when she drove into the path of a tractor-trailer. Neilia and Naomi died immediately, while her two sons sustained severe injuries. Biden was sworn into the U.S. Senate on January 3, 1973, at the hospital where his sons were hospitalized.

Joe Biden's second wife is Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden, born on June 3, 1951. The couple met on a blind date in March 1975 and married on June 17, 1977, at the United Nations Chapel in New York City. Jill Biden initially hesitated due to concerns about her career and the responsibilities of raising Biden's two young sons after the death of his first wife.

Biden has four children from his two marriages. Naomi Christina Biden, his first daughter, was born in 1971 and died in the December 1972 accident. His first son, Joseph "Beau" R. Biden III, was born on February 3, 1969, in Wilmington, Delaware. Beau experienced multiple injuries in the crash but recovered. He graduated from Archmere Academy and the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, and from Syracuse University College of Law. After clerking for a federal judge and working at the U.S. Department of Justice, Beau was elected Delaware Attorney General in 2006, a position he was re-elected to in 2010. He married Hallie Olivere in 2002. Beau Biden was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2013, underwent treatment, but died of brain cancer on May 30, 2015, at the age of 46.

Hunter Biden, born Robert Hunter Biden on February 4, 1970, in Wilmington, is Joe Biden's second son from his first marriage. He also survived the December 1972 car crash with injuries. Hunter attended Georgetown University, graduating in 1992, and then Yale Law School, graduating in 1996. He married Kathleen Buhle in 1993, divorced in 2017, and married Melissa Cohen in 2019. Hunter worked at MBNA America, where he rose to executive vice president. During the 2020 election, he faced scrutiny over his business dealings, notably with Ukrainian company Burisma. In 2024, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges involving evasion from 2016 to 2019, and was set for sentencing in December 2024. On December 1, 2024, President Biden issued an unconditional pardon for Hunter covering all federal offenses from 2014 to 2024, a decision that drew bipartisan criticism.

Naomi "Amy" Biden, born on November 8, 1971, was the daughter of Joe Biden and Neilia; she died in the same 1972 car accident.

Joe Biden's only child from his second marriage is Ashley Blazer Biden, born June 8, 1981. She was educated at Wilmington Friends School, a private Quaker school in Wilmington.