Joe Biden’s first wife, Neilia, and their daughter, Naomi, died in a car accident in 1972. However, Jill Biden has denied Stevenson’s claim, saying she 'separated from her first husband irreconcilably in the fall of 1974 and moved out of their marital home' before her first date with Joe Biden in March 1975. According to this timeline, Jill Biden would have been at least 20 when she met Joe Biden. Stevenson has alleged he introduced Jill Biden to Joe Biden in 1972 and that she started seeing Joe Biden in 1974. Jill Biden married Bill Stevenson the year after she graduated high school. She said she had met Biden once before 'but it was in a crowd and it was at a fundraiser.'īoth Jill Biden and Joe Biden had previously been married to other people. Delaware News Journal 0:00 0:50 Joe Biden's first wife Neilia Hunter Biden is mostly remembered for the car accident that killed her and the couple's baby daughter and enveloped her husband. 'I was really charmed by him,' Jill BIden said in a 2012 CNN interview. He got her number from his brother that night. The New York Times reported in 2008 that Joe Biden said he first saw pictures of Jill Biden - then Jill Jacobs - that month in an advertisement for a local park in Delaware. Jill told Vogue she was a senior in college at the time.

To mark the special day, his wife, first lady Jill Biden posted a heartwarming note on Twitter. Joe Biden in 1975 and they went on their first date in March, when she would have been 23 years old. US President Joe Biden celebrated his 80th birthday on November 20. According to the White House website and news reports, Jill Biden met then-Sen.

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