Joe The Man.
Biden married his first wife Neilia Hunter on Aug. 27, 1966. The college sweethearts went on to have three children — Beau, Hunter and Naomi.
Joe had just been elected senator in Delaware when tragedy struck on Dec. 18, 1972. His wife and children were out Christmas shopping when an accident involving a tractor trailer killed Neilia, 30, and Naomi, who had just turned 1 the month before. Hunter and Beau, who were nearly 3 and 4 at the time, were seriously injured.
The two boys spent months in the hospital, with Joe being sworn into the Senate there.  Three years after the fatal crash, Joe met Jill through his brother Frank when Jill was a student at the University of Delaware. The pair married on June 17, 1977 in New York City — but only after Joe proposed five times.

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