[Music] Joe Biden is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021 a member of the democratic party he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the US Senate from 1973 to 2009 born November 20th 1942 age 81 years Scranton Pennsylvania party democ ratic party vice president kamla Harris 2021 presidential term January 20th 2021 spouse Jill Biden M 1977 nyia Hunter Biden M 1966 to 1972 children Hunter Biden Ashley Biden Bo Biden Naomi Christina Biden height 6'0 Joe Biden net worth $10 million early life 1942 to 1965 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr was born on November 20th 1942 at St Mary's Hospital in Scranton Pennsylvania to Katherine Eugenia Jean Biden Na finigan and Joseph Robinette Biden senior the oldest child in a Catholic Family of mostly Irish descent along with English and French he has a sister Valerie and two brothers Francis and James the Biden surname traces back to William Biden an ancestor of his who immigrated from England to Maryland around 1820 Biden's father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946 but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was 7 years old and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find Steady work beginning in 1953 when Biden was 10 the family lived in an apartment in Claymont Delaware before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield Delaware Biden senior later became a successful youed car salesman maintaining the family in a middleclass lifestyle at archmere Academy in Claymont Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team though a poor student he was class president in his Junior and senior years he graduated in 1961 at the University of Delaware in Newark Biden briefly played freshman football and as an unexceptional student earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science Biden had a stutter and has mitigated it since his early 20s he has described his efforts to reduce it by reciting poetry before a mirror