Joe Biden: Life, Campaigns, and Support

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Introduction
The paper analyses the life of Joe Biden as the 47th vice president of the United States of
America (Ancu, 2014). The entire paper will include the background information related to Joe
Biden, reasons for campaigning as president of US, the strategies he used to campaign and the
group which supported him during his campaign.
Personal background and experience
Joseph Robinette Biden was born November 20, 1942, in Scranton Pennsylvania. Reports
indicate that Biden lived in Pennsylvania for ten years before moving to Delaware with his
family. Biden attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont whereby he performed well in the
school. Academically, Biden was above an average student and he used to work hard while in
school both in class and in other co-curricular activities such as school games (Biden Jr, 2015).
He was elected as the class president in the school before graduating in 1961. In 1965, Biden
earned the bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware whereby he majored in history and
political science. Different records indicate that Biden graduated with a class rank of 506 out of
688. After graduating, Biden used to play football but he was dreaming that by age of 30 he was
to be a senator in the state. After a few years, Biden joined the Syracuse University College of
law after he received a scholarship. Biden describes the entire life in law class as full of ups and
downs. He said that this law life was one of the boring life he has ever experienced (Biden,
2015). During the first year in the law school, Biden plagiarized more than 13 pages of the law
review and this incidence was not good to him. On 1966 Biden married Neillia Hunter while he
was a law student. By the end of 1971, the two couple had three children that are Joseph R.,
Robert Hunter, and Naomi Christina. In 1968 Biden the local Republican decided to recruit
Biden but he was unwilling since he experienced serious dictate from the Republican presidential

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candidate known as Richard Nixon but Biden came with an alternative and he registered as an
independent candidate (Bond & Compton, 2015).
Later, by 1969 Bidden decided to ran for Democrat in the New Castle County Council. At this
time he was lucky enough and he won the election with more than two thousand votes. Biden
assured his followers he will rule the US Senate for a couple of years and they were to support
him up to the end. From 1970 to 1972 Biden served in the council as he was still studying his
law course in the University. During his rule in the Council, Biden represented the 4th district in
the US Senate. He addressed a number of issues such as the opposition to the construction of
large highways which were believed to disrupt the Wilmington neighborhoods in the US (Bond
& Messing, 2015).
Biden's experience in political aspects developed since his childhood as a historian and political
science candidate in school. His experience also increased by learning the law in university. In
1972, Biden entered in U.S Senate campaign and at the same year, he proved his political
prowess in the USA. During this year Biden represented a unique circumstance whereby he was
to replace the Senator J Caleb Boggs who was almost retiring from politics. This year was
problematic for Biden because it was at this time when he was not financially stable and at the
same time the U.S president Richard M. Nixon was opposing him to enter in Senate (Giacomo,
2014). Biden experienced all sorts of challenges until her sister tried to intervene the matter and
assisted him with money to support his campaigns. Biden advocated for a number of the issue
during his campaign such as withdrawal from Vietnam, emphasizing on civil rights, improved
health care services and need for change in the USA. His campaigns were attractive and he was
in a position to lure a large number of followers who supported his manifestos. On November 7,