It was five years after the politician s first wife neilia biden and their 13 month old. Jill biden née jacobs tied the knot in june 1977. Former vice president joe biden and his wife dr.
While seeing black and white photos of biden s. Beau and hunter almost 3 and 4 years old at the time spent months in the hospital and biden was sworn into the senate from their hospital room. But three years later he found jill née jacobs then a co ed at the university of delaware.
In 1972 biden lost his first wife and college sweetheart neilia and 1 year old daughter naomi in a car accident leaving him to raise their two sons beau and hunter alone. Neilia biden s station wagon was hit by a tractor trailer truck as she pulled out from an intersection. Senate election in delaware his first wife neilia and one year old daughter naomi were killed in an automobile accident while christmas shopping in hockessin delaware.
On december 18 1972 a few weeks after joe biden won the u s. Neilia and the couple s 1 year old daughter naomi were killed just before christmas in 1972 when a tractor trailer slammed into. Joe s first wife was his college sweetheart neilia biden.
Joe biden s ongoing recovery from the trauma of the deaths of his first wife and youngest child have dramatically shaped his career from the ways in which he speaks to crowds about grief and. When joe biden recently announced that he would be running for president in the 2020 election people immediately began looking more closely at the man. Meet joe biden s first wife.
She had an easy natural beauty wrote jill adding that neilia. In jill biden s autobiography where the light enters jill describes meeting joe biden s then wife neilia in the winter of 1972. The couple had three children together before her and daughter naomi s unexpected death in 1972.
Joe biden married his first wife neilia hunter in 1966.
Images of joe biden s first wife. It was 1972 and joe biden had just been elected to the u s. Senate in delaware when his first wife neilia hunter biden decided to take the couple s three children to get a christmas tree.
Senate in delaware when his first wife neilia hunter biden decided to take the couple s three children to get a christmas tree. It was 1972 and joe biden had just been elected to the u s.
