pewdel:

Biden facts:

• First marriage had to overcome fiancees parent’s unhappiness with their daughter marrying a Roman Catholic (which they did)
• His wife and baby daughter died, and both sons were injured in a crash just weeks after he was elected senator – an election in which he was the underdog, and his campaign was mostly managed by his family with little funding (1972)
• Wanted to resign in order to care for his sons
• For his boys’ sake he commuted an hour and a half each morning and evening to Washington DC  so he could see them everyday
• Hosted barbecues and christmas dinner annually for Amtrak crews
• Amtrak crews would sometimes hold the last train for a few minutes so he could catch it
• Never works on December 18th, the day his wife and daughter died
• after his first election as U.S. senator for Delaware he was re-elected 6 times – usually with around 60% of the vote
• May 1999 he set the mark for the youngest senator to cast 10,000 votes
• Ranked as one of the least wealthy members of the senate
• Was banned in 2008 from receiving Holy Communion by the bishop of his original hometown, Scranton, because of his support for abortion rights
• Was caught on microphone telling Obama that signing the ACA was “a big fucking deal” during live broadcasts
• Obama’s daughter Sasha and Biden’s granddaughter Maisy attended the same school together, which helped form the obama-biden friendship
• Biden’s friendships on the senate floor were often instrumental in passing major legislation
• In 2015 he reduced his schedule to spend more time with his son Beau, who was fighting and later died from brain cancer  
• One of only 4 recipients to receive the presidential medal of freedom with distinction
• Jill Biden, his wife, is one of only 2 second ladies to continue her day job
• just a fucking decent dude