| Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942,[3] at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania,[4] to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (née Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr.[5][6] The oldest child in a Catholic family of English, French, and Irish descent, he has a sister, Valerie, and two brothers, Francis and James.[7] Biden's father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946,[8] but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old,[9][10][11] and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton.[12] Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find steady work.[13] Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten,[14] the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield.[15][16][10][12] Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.[12][13][17] |
Looks like the fruit didn't fall far from the tree!
