Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church. Both women joined him on Sunday, as did Hunter and many of the president’s grandchildren among others at St. She was born in December 1993 and shares the name of Biden's late daughter Naomi, who died in a car crash at 13 months old along with his first wife, Neilia, in 1972. Biden’s raw openness around grief and his ability to empathize with fellow Americans who have experienced loss have become defining traits of his political career.īiden married Jill Jacobs in 1977 and they had a daughter, Ashley. His three eldest children (Hunter, Beau, and Naomi) were born to his late wife, Neilia Hunter. But on the advice of other senators he stayed in office, commuting back and forth from Washington to Delaware. Biden is the father of four children, Naomi, Beau, Hunter, and Ashley. The tragedy almost prompted Biden, also age 30 when the accident happened, to give up his fledgling political career. The couple’s two sons, Beau and Hunter, who were just about to turn 4 and 3 at the time, were also in the car and were seriously injured. 18 of that year as they went out to buy a Christmas tree. President Joe Biden and his family held a private memorial service Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and their baby daughter.īiden, who had just been elected to the Senate in November 1972, was not in the car when his wife, 30-year-old Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were broadsided by a tractor-trailer on Dec. Last August, as President Joe Biden left the White House for another weekend at home in Wilmington, Delaware, he told reporters he was bringing his President’s Daily Brief the highly.

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