Long before reaching one of the highest political offices in the nation, born on November 20, 1942. He grew up in the blue-collar city of Scranton in Pennsylvania. The young boy credits his parents with instilling in him toughness, hard work and perseverance. He has recalled his father frequently saying, "Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up."  He's also said that when he would come home sullen because he had been bullied by one of the bigger kids in the neighborhood, his mother would keep encouraging him. He has had a problem with stuttering throughout his life, especially in his childhood and his early twenties, and says he has helped reduce the problem by spending many hours reciting poetry. He is now known to us as Mr. Joe Biden the 47th Ex-Vice-Presidents of the USA and a running candidate for 2020 US-Presidential-Elections. 

I can think of nothing else that has ever stripped me of my dignity as quickly and as profoundly and as thoroughly as when I stuttered in grade school," he said in a 2008 speech to the American Institute for Stuttering. – Biden. Clearly, Biden didn't let his stutter affect his academics. While he was still attending Syracuse University College of Law to earn a law degree, he married his first wife, Neilia Hunter. They had three children together, sons Beau and Hunter, and daughter Naomi. 

In 1972, Biden suffered an unimaginable tragedy, just one month after winning the U.S. Senate election in Delaware at just 29 years old in a stunning upset against two-term incumbent J. Caleb Boggs, Neilia and their daughter Naomi -- who was just a year old at the time died in an automobile accident. Beau, who was 4 years old at the time, and Hunter, who was 2, were also in the car but survived, though not without suffering serious injuries.

Hunter recalled the devastating accident while delivering Beau's eulogy in 2015, after he died from brain cancer. "The first memory I have is of lying in a hospital bed next to my brother," Hunter said. "I was almost 3 years old. I remember my brother, who was one year and one day older than me, holding my hand, staring into my eyes, saying, 'I love you; I love you; I love you' over and over and over again." 

In a CNN documentary, Biden shared that he contemplated suicide following the deaths of Neilia and Naomi, but his sons kept him going. But this was definitely not the end for him. "Many people have gone through things like that. But because I had the incredibly good fortune of an extended family, grounded in love and loyalty. "By focusing on my sons, I found my redemption." Biden continued to rise politically through the years. In 1972, Biden was re-elected to six more Senate terms. He was asked by Barack Obama to be his vice president in 2008, and the two won the election. They were reelected in 2012. Biden faced yet another heartbreaking tragedy during his vice presidency when his eldest son, Beau, died in 2015 from brain cancer. He was only 46 years old. Biden later said his personal tragedies have led to a greater empathy with people who also are struggling. 

During the DNC, Obama made an appearance to support Biden and talked about how he's dealt with grief. Michelle Obama, also referred to Biden as "a profoundly decent man, guided by faith," in her own DNC speech. "Twelve years ago, when I began my search for a vice president, I didn't know I'd end up finding a brother" - Barack Obama. "Joe and I came from different places and different generations. But what I quickly came to admire about him is his resilience, born of too much struggle; his empathy, born of too much grief. For eight years, Joe was the last one in the room whenever I faced a big decision," he continued. "He made me a better president, and he's got the character and the experience to make us a better country. That empathy, that decency, the belief that everybody counts, that's who Joe is.” 

As the US election results appear to be inching closer with an expected outcome that Biden gave off an impression of being a stage away from winning the US Presidential race. Biden has now gotten a greater number of decisions in favor of president than any other candidate in U.S. political race history, formally astounding previous President Barack Obama's 2008 famous vote numbers. For Biden the road to accepting the Democratic presidential nomination and potentially becoming the next president of the United States. The 77-year-old politician has gone through extreme highs and lows in his personal life. “Together, you’ll prove that change is hard but necessary, progress is never easy but always possible and things do get better on our march toward a more perfect union. That’s the history of the journey of America”. - Joe Biden