Meet Jill Biden, the next Second Lady of the United States

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Jill Tracy Jacobs, married Joe in 1977, some six years after Joe suffered the tragic loss of his first wife and infant daughter. Joe met Jill when she was at the University of Delaware. She is currently an English Professor, teaching at Delaware Technical Community College.

Professionally, she has been a reading specialist, high school English teacher and a teacher at a mental health facility. Jill founded Biden Breast Health initiative which focuses on early breast cancer detection.

Joe had a serious health crisis in 1988 when he was hospitalized for two brain aneurysm’s that kept him from his Senate duties for seven months.

Jill and Joe have a daughter Ashley Blazer Biden who was born in 1981. She is a social worker. Their son Joseph Beau Biden is Delaware’s Attorney General and son Robert Hunter Biden is a lawyer. The couple also have 5 grandchildren: Naomi, Finnegan, Roberta Mabel, Natalie and Robert Hunter.





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