The U.S. Presidential Election was one of the much-awaited events of 2020. After a very long poll, Joe Biden was elected the President defeating Donald Trump in November, 2020. He will assume power as the 46th President on 20 January, 2021. Biden was a popular Vice President of the United States from 2009-17 under President Barack Obama.
Born in Pennsylvania on 20 November, 1942, Biden grew up in Scranton and New Castle County. He completed his bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware in 1965 and took a law degree from the Syracuse University in 1968.
He was elected to the U.S. Senate at the age of 29, in 1972, thus becoming the fifth youngest senator in the history of the country. Biden was re-elected to the Senate six times. He resigned in 2008 to serve as Barack Obama’s Vice President after the 2008 presidential election.
Biden played a major role as the vice president in Obama’s initiatives. He announced his presidential candidacy for the 2020 elections in April, 2019, proving all the speculations true. It was in August, 2020 that he announced his choice of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate.
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