Joe Biden — Profile, Rankings & Fame Trend

Summary

Updated 2026-07-17

The oldest person to serve as U.S. president, he won the 2020 election at 78, then withdrew from the 2024 race after a debate performance that accelerated months of questions about age and fitness — ending a half-century political career that had already included eight years as vice president and thirty-six in the Senate.

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Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1942, Biden won a Senate seat from Delaware in 1972 and chaired both the Judiciary and Foreign Relations committees over three decades, drafting the Violence Against Women Act and overseeing contentious Supreme Court hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. After failed presidential runs in 1988 and 2008, Obama picked him as running mate, and he served two terms as vice president before defeating Trump in 2020 with Kamala Harris. As president from 2021 to 2025, he signed the American Rescue Plan and infrastructure bills, withdrew troops from Afghanistan i…

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Joe Biden

said1993

Every time Richard Nixon, when he was running in 1972, would say, 'Law and order,' the Democratic match or response was, 'Law and order with justice' — whatever that meant.

— Joe Biden in 1993

Joe Biden

said14 Oct 1991

Biden took on the idea that Hill's failure to come forward with complaints suggested that the incidents did not occur.

— As quoted in "4 Testify Hill spoke years ago of harassment", (Washington Post, October 14, 1991)

Joe Biden

said13 Sep 1987

I started thinking as I was coming over here, why is it that Joe Biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university?

— Quoted in "No Time to Cite Source, He Says : Biden Stirs Row by Using Lines From Briton’s Talk" Los Angeles Times (September 13, 1987)

Joe Biden

said10 Jun 1987

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest.

— Campaign speech announcing entry into 1988 presidential race, Wilmington, Delaware (June 10, 1987)

Joe Biden

said10 Jun 1987