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Biden grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania and New Castle County, Delaware. He received his education from the University of Delaware and then earned his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. In 1970, he was elected Councilor of New Castle County . And in 1972, at the age of 29, he was elected to the US Senate from Delaware, thus becoming the sixth youngest senator in US history. Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and eventually became its chairman. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991, but supported the expansion of the NATO alliance in Eastern Europe and the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.supported its intervention. He supported a resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002, but opposed an increase in US troop numbers in 2007. He was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and oversaw six US Supreme Court hearings, including the controversial hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas . He tried unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and again in 2008.

Biden was elected to the Senate six times, and was the fourth most senior senator when he resigned in 2008 to serve as his administration's vice president after winning the presidential election ; Barack Obama and Biden were re-elected in 2012 . As Vice President, Biden oversaw infrastructure spending to counter the 2009 Great Recession. including negotiating with Republican members of Congress to pass the Tax Relief Act of 2010, which resolved a taxation impasse; the Budget Control Act of 2011, which resolved the debt ceiling crisis; And the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 resolved the impending "fiscal cliff". He signed the United States-Russia New START treaty, LibyaHe led efforts to support military intervention in Iraq, and helped formulate US policy for Iraq through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, he led the Gun Violence Task Force. , In January 2017, Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In April 2019, Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, and in June 2020 he reached the delegate threshold needed to secure the Democratic nomination. On August 11, he announced Kamala Harris, US Senator from California, as his running mate. Biden defeated Donald Trump in the November 3 election. He is the second non-incumbent Vice President to be elected President after Richard Nixon in 1968.