Well, I, Joe Robinette Biden, was born on November 20, 1942, at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (née Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. The oldest child in a Catholic family, I had a sister, Valerie, and two brothers, Francis and James. Jean was of Irish descent, while Joseph Sr. had English, French, and Irish ancestry.
My father had been wealthy, but suffered financial setbacks around the time I was born, and for several years the family lived with my maternal grandparents.[13] Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and my father could not find steady work. Beginning in 1953 when I was ten, my family lived an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield. Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, I played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team. Though a poor student, I was class president in my junior and senior years. I graduated in 1961. At the University of Delaware in Newark, I briefly played freshman football and, as an unexceptional student, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science, and a minor in English.
I have a stutter, which has improved since my early twenties. I say I reduced it by reciting poetry before a mirror, but some observers suggested it affected my performance in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential debates.
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