Joe Biden Jr. was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Since that area was having economical difficulties his family moved to Claymont, Deleware when he was 10 years old. Biden had problems with stuttering in his childhood onto his early 20's but he overcame it by reciting poetry. Biden went to the Archmere Academy, a college preparatory school, where he graduated in 1961. He attended University of Deleware in Newark, he graduated with a bachelor of Arts, and Double Major in History and Political Science. After going to UDN he went to Syracuse University College of Law where he got h is Juris Doctor in 1968.
Biden took office in 1973 as a U.S. Senator, becoming the 5th youngest senator to take office, at 30 years old which is the minimum age requirement. Biden won 5 more terms after that, and he kept about %60 of the votes in each election. Biden became Deleware's senior senator in 2000, now the longest serving senator in Deleware's history. hes now running for reelection this year (2008) and also being the Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee.
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I learned that Biden had a studdering problem. And how he over came it.
-Hamp Beddoes
I learned that Biden went to Syracuse University College of Law where he got his Juris Doctor in 1968.
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