(Hunter told The New Yorker in 2019 that he had been a frequent social drinker and occasionally used cocaine.)Ī few years later, in 2017, following the death of his brother Beau from cancer, Hunter separated from his wife, Kathleen, and began dating Hallie Biden, Beau's widow, the New York Post's Page Six reported. Joe and Jill Biden with son Hunter and Hunter's ex-wife Kathleen.Īt the age of 44, Hunter was discharged from the Navy Reserves for testing positive for cocaine, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2014. In 2008, Hunter launched a consulting firm, and in 2009 cofounded Rosemont Seneca Partners, a private-equity firm. 'I wanted my father to have a clean slate,' Hunter Biden told The New Yorker last year. Hunter said he resigned from the lobbying firm to preserve the 'optics' of his father's ticket with Obama. At the time, MBNA was known to be a major donor to Joe Biden's campaigns.įrom 2001 to 2008, Hunter worked at a federal lobbying firm that he cofounded, resigning when his father joined the presidential ticket. 'If you forgot to wear your MBNA lapel pin, someone would stop you in the halls,' he told The New Yorker in 2019. He became an executive vice president at MBNA Bank and stayed at the bank for nearly five years, although he later said he didn't like its corporate culture. In 1997, he returned to Wilmington, where he lived with his wife and daughters. He went on to study at Georgetown, graduating in 1992. After his college graduation, he spent time in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps before heading to Yale Law School in 1996, where he got a JD. Hunter Biden was born in February 1970 in Wilmington. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for World Food Program USA I intend to speak out clearly and forcefully, to influence as much as I can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation.' I've concluded it has closed,' he said at the time, adding that 'while I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent. 'As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along what I've said time and again to others, that it may very well be that the process by the time we get through it closes the window. 'Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known,' Biden said in a statement about his son.īeau's death may have kept Biden from running for president in 2016. 'And the example he set made you want to be a better dad, or a better son, or a better brother or sister, better at your job, the better soldier. He was a man who led a life where the means were as important as the ends,' Obama said at the funeral. 'He did in 46 years what most of us couldn't do in 146. After Beau died of brain cancer in May 2015, Barack Obama delivered a eulogy at his funeral.

In 2010, he had a stroke, and in 2013, he had a lesion removed from his brain. Joe and Jill Biden after attending Beau's funeral in 2015.īefore his cancer diagnosis, Beau Biden had struggled with several health issues. Once her husband is sworn in as president, Jill will become the first FLOTUS to have a full-time job outside of the White House, as reported by Business Insider. That usually quiets them,' she once told The New York Times.īusiness Insider previously reported that many students didn't even know she was married to Joe Biden, as she went by the nickname 'Dr. 'My standard line when students ask me if I am married to the VP is to say that I am one of his relatives. But even so, she has mostly kept her distance from the political spotlight.ĭuring Biden's vice presidency, she was an English teacher at Northern Virginia Community College - making her the first known Second Lady to work while in the role. While her husband has been in office, Jill has hosted a slew of events, some with former First Lady Michelle Obama. It often indicates a user profile.īarack Obama's wife Michelle (left) and Joe Biden's wife Jill hosted events together when they served as First Lady and Second Lady as well as for the 2020 presidential campaign. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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