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Children. Joe Biden fathered four children from two marriages. His firstborn daughter and third child, Naomi Christina Biden, died in December 1972, in the same car accident as her mother. His firstborn son and first child, Joseph "Beau" R. Biden III, died in May 2015 from brain cancer.
- Ashley Biden
Ashley Blazer Biden was born on June 8, 1981, in Wilmington,...
- Beau Biden
Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (February 3, 1969 – May...
- Ashley Biden
Jun 2, 2023 · Just weeks after being elected the junior senator from Delaware, Joe Biden ’s first wife, Neilia, and 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, are killed in a car accident while out shopping for a Christmas...
- Missy Sullivan
May 14, 2024 · Joe Biden's first wife Neilia Hunter was just 30 years old when she was killed in a car crash in Delaware on December 18, 1972.
- Her Brothers Survived The Crash, But Beau Biden Would Later Die of Cancer
- Joe Biden Often Shares The Story of The Deaths of His Daughter & Wife
- Joe Biden Says He Channels His Grief to Connect with People in Mourning
- Joe Biden Wrote About His Family’S Tragedies in His Books
Beau Biden and his brother, Hunter Biden, were the only two people to survive the crash that devastated the Biden family. Joseph “Beau” Biden III was only three years old when he suffered critical injuries in the crash that left his mother, Neila, and baby sister, Naomi, dead. Hunter Biden also suffered critical head injuries. Beau Biden survived t...
Joe Biden spoke to a group of survivors of slain military service members, sharing his story about the loss of his baby daughter and young wife in 1972. The program was organized by the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a non-profit advocacy group, to commemorate Memorial Day. “For the first time in my life, I understood how someone ...
Biden has used his tragic life experiences to connect with people who are grieving, from private phone calls to people who have just lost loved ones to public speaking events and books. He shared his story in May 2012, speaking with a group of people whose loved ones were killed in the military. He told the survivors he understood why people contem...
Joe Biden wrote about his grief in his books. In Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, Biden wrote, “The first few days, I felt trapped in a constant twilight of vertigo, like in the dream where you’re suddenly falling … only I was constantly falling. I began to understand how despair led people to just cash it in; how suicide wasn’t just an opti...
- Alyssa Choiniere
Dec 18, 2022 · Biden, who had just been elected to the Senate in November 1972, was not in the car when his wife, 30-year-old Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were broadsided by a tractor-trailer on Dec. 18 of that year as they went out to buy a Christmas tree.
Dec 18, 2021 · His wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi died after their car was broadsided while they were en route to pick up a Christmas tree.
Dec 19, 2022 · Beau Biden died in 2015 at age 46. Biden and first lady Jill Biden brought flowers to the gravesite of the president's late wife, Neilia, and daughter, Naomi.
