Joe Biden (Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr.)
Position:
Senior Democratic United States Senator from Delaware.
He is both the 2008 Democratic Vice Presidentail nominee & re-elect candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Born:
November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Education:
Archmere Academy, 1961.
Undergraduate:
Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 with a Bachelor Of Arts degree in both History and Political Science.
He received his Juris Doctorate from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968. His first year there he was accused of
plagiarizing pages of a law review article. He was allowed to retake the course. During this time, Biden received 5 student draft
deferments (dodged the draft because of being a college student) with the first in 1963 and the last in 1968. This was during the height of the Vietnam War.
