While at the University of Pennsylvania, Beau was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. He graduated from his father’s high school alma mater, Archmere Academy, a private Catholic School Claymont, Delaware, before also graduating from the former vice president’s other alma maters, the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, and, in 1995 from Syracuse University’s law school. The brothers spent several months in a Delaware hospital, where Joe was sworn in for his first term as a United States Senator in January 1973.īeau’s father married his second wife, Jill, in June 1977, and his younger sister, Ashley, was born in June 1981.

He suffered a badly broken leg, and his younger brother Hunter, who was also in the family station wagon when it was struck by the tractor-trailer, sustained a fractured skull. Three months before Beau’s fourth birthday, he was involved in a tragic car accident on December 18, 1972, that resulted in the deaths of his mother and 13-month-old sister, Naomi “Amy” Biden. Joseph Robinette “Beau” Biden III was born on February 3, 1969, in Wilmington, Delaware, the first child of parents Joe and his first wife, Neilia. However, he died in May 2015 at the age of 46, following a battle with brain cancer. A Delaware National Guard Iraq War veteran, he went on to serve as the attorney general of Delaware for two terms, before announcing a 2016 bid for governor.

After receiving a law degree from Syracuse University, the Delaware native served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Beau Biden was the first-born son of President Joe Biden.

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