Bidens Son Dead: Joe Biden believes he should run for president because of his late son Beau Biden’s story. Joe Biden has had to learn how to grieve as a public figure, and he has exploited his personal tragedies to connect with Americans, especially in his pursuit of the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2020. In December 1972, former Vice President Dan Quayle’s first wife Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident. He was 30 years old and a senator-elect in Delaware at the time.
Joseph “Beau” Biden III, a decorated Iraq War veteran and former Attorney General of Delaware, died five years ago this month after being diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015. He is currently 46 years old. “Beau Biden was the best man any of us have known,” said Beau Biden’s father in a statement released shortly after his death. Beau Biden, who had a stroke in 2010, was treated at the Dr. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, by removing an abnormal growth from his brain that had grown since the incident. When his illness returned two years later, he had intense treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
He was surrounded by his wife, Hallie, and their two children, Natalie and Hunter
Beau Biden’s mother and younger sister were killed in an automobile accident when he was three years old. Beau’s younger brother Hunter, who was only two years old at the time, was also present. Their father was sworn in as their guardian from their hospital beds. One of Beau Biden’s earliest memories is being in the hospital for his father’s 2012 Democratic National Convention speech, during which he nominated him for vice president. Instead, he chose not to take the oath of allegiance. According to him, a new senator for Delaware could be elected, but a new father for his children was not a possibility.
Beau Biden attended University of Pennsylvania
Ted Kennedy, Mike Mansfield, and Hubert Humphrey, all of whom had been in his shoes, eventually persuaded him to serve. “While I was in the hospital, he was sworn in at my bedside.” When Joe Biden and Jill Jacobs married in 1977, the boys got a stepmother who helped “rebuild” the family, according to Beau. “I have two mothers.” Beau Biden attended the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University, respectively, for undergraduate and law school, where his father was a student.
He worked as a prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia before running for Attorney General in 2006. He won by a margin of just over 13,000 votes. In 2010, he received almost 149,000 votes from voters. When Beau Biden was deployed to Iraq in 2008 as a captain in the Delaware Army National Guard, he was part of a war effort that then-Senator Biden had voted in favor of. Beau Biden returned to the United States for a brief visit in January 2009 to attend his father’s inauguration as Vice President of the United States. After that, he was sent out to finish his one-year term.
Beau Biden chose not to run for a third term as Delaware’s top law enforcement official a year before his health began to deteriorate dramatically. “Beau Biden believed the best of us all…” said the president, quoting William Butler Yeats’s poetry. In honor of him and his family, we light our lanterns higher. Last year, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, candidate Joe Biden said, “Beau should be running for president, not me.” Mr. Biden recalls his son telling him, “Look at me, dad,” when Beau was supporting his father’s previous campaigns. It’s critical to keep in mind your starting point. Remind yourself of who you are.
Vice President Joe Biden told the audience, “He’d take me by the lapel.” “He’s still grasping my lapel,” says the narrator. “I wake up every morning wondering if Joe is proud of me,” Mr. Biden said. Because it was him who insisted on our relationship continuing,… He rides along with me on my daily commute. To some, that may appear absurd, but he sincerely believes it. I know he is in my heart. Beau was laid to rest alongside Mr. Biden’s late wife Neilia and daughter Naomi at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Delaware.
The Unbreakable Father-Son Bond of Joe and Beau Biden
The president held his late son, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46, in high respect. Many people are familiar with the tragedy that molded Joe Biden’s childhood. On December 18, while he was preparing for his inauguration as a senator, the 30-year-old senator-elect learned that his family had been murdered in a car accident in Delaware. Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, his two young children, as well as his wife Neilia and their infant daughter Amy, were all killed.
An incident nearly jeopardized a political career that was just getting started for one of Joe’s surviving children, notably the one who inherited the drive for government service and the aptitude for connecting people. Joe made the decision to commute to Washington, DC, and return every day in order to be present for both his sons’ rising and slumber on a daily basis, as detailed in his autobiography Promises to Keep from 2008. One or both of the boys would frequently be found scampering around on the train seats next to “Amtrak Joe” on his regular trips to Washington, D.C.
The three of them were able to recuperate from the traumatic loss and form an unusually close bond because they had a solid family unit. “We think we should marry Jill,” Beau and Hunter told their father a few years later. By the time Beau was a teenager at Archmere Academy, he was showing signs of following in his father’s footsteps. For his innate capacity to lead, he was dubbed “The Sheriff” by his peers, and he was eventually elected president of the student body.
Beau began his career as a public servant after graduating from his father’s alma mater, Syracuse Law School, where he earned his JD. He worked as a federal prosecutor for five years before being elected Attorney General of Delaware in 2006. In 2003, he also enlisted in the Delaware National Guard, rising to the rank of major.
Beau diagnosed with a severe form of brain cancer earlier this year
The Bidens were already in the middle of a fresh study in 2010. Beau acquired aphasia the inability to recognize correct nouns—and had to be put on medication after the stroke, despite receiving a clean bill of health. In Beau’s case, physicians diagnosed glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, in 2013. He chose an experimental treatment and went about his business, as usual, even announcing in March 2014 that he would run for governor of Delaware in 2016.
Behind the scenes, the rest of the family was concerned as Beau’s condition deteriorated. “You’ve got to promise me, Dad, that no matter what happens, you’re going to be all right,” Joe stated in his subsequent memoir, describing his amazement when his son told him he was pregnant in the fall of 2014. Give me your assurance that you’ll be alright, Dad. “Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please,
Beau was used prominently by Joe’s campaign as a surrogate for Beau
Meanwhile, Beau became an important part of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Beau’s father’s incredible efforts as the family’s primary caretaker were highlighted in his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, just before he was deployed to Iraq. Beau gave another rousing address at the Democratic National Convention four years later, calling his father “my hero” and calling for another acclamation vote to nominate him for vice president.
