![]() ![]() In a 2016 interview with Seth Meyers, she jokingly said she’d rather be called “Captain of the Vice-squad.”ģ0. She did not like being called “second lady”. She ran her first ever marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon, in 1998 in 4:30:32.Ģ9. She is a keen runner and has previously run in charity races, regularly running miles a day for exercise.Ģ8. As well as a doctorate, she has two masters degrees - in Education and in English.Ģ7. ![]() She shares seven grandchildren with Joe, and has been described by one of her granddaughters, Naomi, as “very mischievous”Ģ6. Her memoir Where the Light Enters: Building a Family, Discovering Myself was published in 2012 and became a New York Times bestseller.Ģ5. Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops was published in 2012, while Joey: The Story of Joe Biden was published in 2020.Ģ4. She has authored several children’s books. ![]() She got her Doctorate in Education from the University of Delaware in 2007.Ģ3. She is the first first lady in history who has a paying job outside of the White House.Ģ2. And she really loves her job - she doesn’t just work as an educator, it’s who she is according to one of her tweets from 2020.Ģ1. As second lady, when Joe Biden was vice president to Barack Obama between 20, she made her security service detail dress up as students when they accompanied her to class.Ģ0. Jill’s students refer to her as “Dr B”, and she also gets a thumbs up for her teaching – with reviews on Rate My Professor suggesting that most students would take her class again – but warning that she is a tough grader.ġ9. She taught English at Rockford Center psychiatric hospital, and worked in public schools for 13 years.ġ8. She let Joe’s sons Hunter and Beau choose the name of her daughter, Ashley, who was born in 1981.ġ7. “She made me start to think my family might be whole again.”ġ6. “She gave me back my life,” said Joe in his memoir Promises to Keep. She has been a rock for Joe, who met her after the death of his first wife and their daughter Naomi. Perhaps explaining her draw to the teaching profession, she is the oldest of five sisters.ġ5. She’s not easy to pin down – Jill has previously said that Joe Biden had to propose five times before she agreed to marry him.ġ4. “Those were the first words I spoke to Joe when he called me out of the blue on a Saturday in 1975.”ġ3. ![]() She was surprised when Joe first asked her out, tweeting at a much later date: ”How did you get this number?” She was previously married at age 18 to Bill Stevenson, who she divorced in 1975.ġ2. Joe and Jill Biden were set up on a blind date and she told Vogue that after it ended she called her mother and said “‘Mom, I finally met a gentleman”.ġ1. “I might’ve done five jobs where you get paid, like, 20 bucks,” she told Vogue. To make some extra money before she met Joe Biden she did some modelling for an agency in Wilmington, Delaware. After high school she briefly studied fashion merchandising at a junior college in Pennsylvania, according to Vogue magazine.ĩ. As a youngster she spent summers waiting tables at restaurants at the New Jersey shore.Ĩ. She grew up a huge fan of the Philadelphia Flyers NHL ice hockey team, but also supports the city’s Eagles and Phillies.ħ. She once punched a neighbourhood bully who had upset her sister Bonny Jacobs, knocking on his door and punching him in the face.Ħ. As a girl she says she would sneak out of her house and break into the Upper Moreland Swim Club in suburban Philadelphia for a dip.ĥ. The family of her mother, Bonny Jean Godfrey, ran a Rexall drugstore in Camden, New Jersey, which is where her parents met when her father ordered an ice cream.Ĥ. Her father, Donald Jacobs, was a former World War II Navy signalman who became a bank teller and eventually was president of a Pennsylvania bank.ģ. They spent the time together, with celebrations thought to be “quiet”, according to CNN.Īfter turning 70, here are 70 facts about Dr Biden:ġ. The US president, who has publicly endured great tragedy, has credited his wife for his personal happiness and professional success. ![]()
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