Now, he and his wife Jill Biden are millionaires. O n the day America’s first billionaire president took office, middle class Joe Biden boarded the Amtrak out of Washington D.C. Both joined him at the church Saturday, as did Hunter and his family among others. Joe Biden used to joke about being the poorest member of Congress. The tragedy haunted him at the start of his Senate career and has been a touchstone of his presidency, with Biden recently opening a speech in Minnesota by noting how two of that state's former senators helped him cope.īiden married Jill Jacobs in 1977 and they added daughter Ashley to the family. His wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi died after their car was broadsided while they were en route to pick up a Christmas tree. Born in February 1969, he went on to become a. Senate in Delaware when his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, decided to take the couple’s three children to get a Christmas tree. Joseph Biden III, better known by his nickname, Beau was Mr Biden’s first child with his first wife, Neilia Hunter, born on 3 February 1969. His son, Hunter waits for the first piece.
His sons Beau and Hunter, just under 4 and 3 at the time, were seriously injured but survived the crash. It was 1972, and Joe Biden had just been elected to the U.S. Joe Biden and wife Nelia cut his 30th birthday cake at a party in Wilmington. Their deaths occurred just after Delaware voters elected Biden to the Senate in 1972 and the fatal car crash became a defining moment that has shaped his persona and career. President Joe Biden on Saturday commemorated the 49th anniversary of the car crash that killed his first wife and infant daughter, visiting their graves at the Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church.