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Joseph „Joe“ Robinette Biden, Jr. (* 20. listopadu 1942 Scranton, Pensylvánie) je americký politik za Demokratickou stranu a 46. prezident Spojených států amerických mezi lety 2021 a 2025. V letech 2009 až 2017 sloužil jako 47. viceprezident USA ve vládě Baracka Obamy a mezi roky 1973 až 2009 byl americkým senátorem za stát Delaware. V roce 2017 obdržel Prezidentskou medaili svobody.

Vystudovaný právník sloužil v Senátu 36 let a podpořil například Violence Against Women Act (Zákon proti násilí na ženách), vojenskou intervenci v Jugoslávii či válku v Iráku. Jako prezident prosazoval liberální politiku a podporoval Ukrajinu během ruské invaze.

Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (née Jacobs; born June 3, 1951) is an American educator who served as the first lady of the United States from 2021 to 2025 as the wife of President Joe Biden. She was second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her husband was vice president. From 2009 to 2024 she was a professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College. She was the first wife of a president to hold a salaried job during the majority of her husband's tenure and the first to carry on with her professional career outside the White House while being a first lady.

Born in Hammonton, New Jersey, Jacobs grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. In 1977, she married Joe Biden, a widower, and became the stepmother of Beau and Hunter. Biden and her husband also have a daughter, Ashley Biden, born in 1981. Biden has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and master's degrees in education and English from West Chester University and Villanova University. She returned to the University of Delaware and received a doctoral degree in education. She taught English and reading in high schools for thirteen years and instructed adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. Following this, she was an English and writing instructor for fifteen years at Delaware Technical & Community College.

Biden is the founder of the Biden Breast Health Initiative non-profit organization, co-founder of the Book Buddies program, co-founder of the Biden Foundation, is active in Delaware Boots on the Ground, and with Michelle Obama is co-founder of Joining Forces. She has published a memoir and two children's books.