A Guide to President Joe Biden's Family After He Pardoned Son Hunter

Widowed astatine 30 erstwhile his archetypal woman Neilia Hunter Biden was killed successful a car clang on with their 13-month-old girl Naomi in 1972, then-freshman Sen. Joe Biden focused connected raising their sons, Beau Biden and Hunter Biden, and enactment romance connected the backmost burner.

Really, it wasn't adjacent connected the stove until Joe's younger member Frank Biden gave him Jill Jacobs' telephone fig a fewer years later.

"She gave maine backmost my life," Joe wrote of finding emotion again with the aboriginal archetypal lady successful his 2007 memoir Promises to Keep. "She made maine commencement to deliberation my household mightiness beryllium full again."

Joe and Jill joined connected June 17, 1977.

The president often invokes his precocious son, Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III, a erstwhile Army large and two-term Delaware lawyer wide who died of glioblastoma successful 2015 astatine the property of 46.

"Beau had a strict codification of honor," Joe told the New York Times upon the merchandise of his 2017 memoir Promise Me, Dad. "That whitethorn dependable silly, but it's true. My dada had an expression: 'Never explicate and ne'er complain.' I ne'er erstwhile heard Beau complain. Not once."

He recalled a nighttime toward the extremity of Beau's beingness when, Joe said, his lad "had travel look to look with his mortality. He watched maine spell done the nonaccomplishment of his parent and sister. And helium didn't privation maine to crook inward. He didn't privation maine to springiness up connected the robustness of life."

In his eulogy for his brother, Hunter recalled his archetypal representation of Beau: Waking up successful the infirmary adjacent to him successful 1972 aft the car wreck that killed their ma and sister

Speaking astatine at a National Guard/Army Reserve halfway named aft his lad the time earlier his inauguration successful January 2020, Joe said however arrogant helium was to beryllium from Delaware.

"And I americium adjacent much arrogant to beryllium lasting present doing this from the Major Beau Biden facility," helium added. "Ladies and gentlemen, I lone person 1 regret: He's not here. Because we should beryllium introducing him arsenic president." 

Beau married Hallie Biden (née Olivere) successful 2002. They welcomed girl Natalie Naomi Biden in 2004 and lad Robert Hunter Biden II in 2006.

Joe yet decided not to tally for president successful 2016 successful the aftermath of Beau's death, but Hallie's dada Ron Olivere told Delaware's News Journal that Joe consulted his girl earlier helium adjacent considered it.

"Her response," Ron said, "was, 'Pop, we're down you each the way. We're down you 100 percent.'"

"Thanksgiving I deliberation is each of our favourite holiday," Natalie, who was 10 erstwhile her dada passed away, said connected TODAY earlier her grandfather's inauguration successful January 2020. "Because we usually spell to Nantucket...[cousin] Maisy and I and my grandpa and my uncle and my dad... we utilized to bash a Polar Bear plunge successful Nantucket successful November."

She graduated from St. Andrew's School (where immoderate of Dead Poets Society was shot) successful Middletown, Del., successful 2023 and enrolled astatine her dad's alma mater, University of Pennsylvania.

Natalie attended a May 2024 State Dinner for the president of Kenya with day Rafael Hajjar.

Beau and Hallie's son, who's named aft his uncle and goes by Hunter, is starring a comparatively backstage life, but he's been contiguous for large household events (i.e. inaugurations).

During a CNN townhall with Anderson Cooper successful March 2020, Joe shared that Beau's kids lived adjacent him and Jill successful Delaware and—with societal distancing the bid of the time astatine the time—"we beryllium connected our backmost structure and they beryllium retired connected the tract with 2 chairs there, and we speech astir everything that is going connected successful their day. And speech astir being location from school, and who's driving whom crazy, and truthful on."

The president and archetypal woman besides attended their grandson's confirmation successful 2021 astatine the family's longtime church, St. Joseph connected the Brandywine.

Born Robert Hunter Biden connected Feb. 4, 1970, the Yale Law School postgraduate has been candid astir his conflict with substance maltreatment and different idiosyncratic struggles.

In June 2024, helium was found guilty of 2 counts of lying astir his cause usage connected a national inheritance cheque signifier to get a firearm and 1 number of possessing a weapon portion addicted to, oregon using, amerciable drugs, each felonies. Prior to his dad's Dec. 1 pardon, helium was facing a maximum condemnation of 25 years successful prison.

Hunter besides pled blameworthy to tax-avoidance charges successful September.

Under a unreality of antagonistic headlines, Hunter was absent from astir of his father's run events successful 2020.

"Beau and I person been determination since we were carried successful baskets during his archetypal campaign," Hunter told the New Yorker in 2019. "We went everyplace with him. At each azygous large lawsuit and each tiny lawsuit that had to bash with his governmental career, I was there. I've ne'er missed a rally for my dad. The conception that I'm not lasting adjacent to him successful Philadelphia, adjacent to the Rocky statue, it's heartbreaking for me. It's sidesplitting maine and it's sidesplitting him. Dad says, 'Be here.' Mom says, 'Be here.' But astatine what cost?"

Hunter—who spoke remotely during the Democratic National Convention successful August 2020, erstwhile his begetter officially accepted his party's nomination—was there successful idiosyncratic connected Nov. 7 for the president-elect's triumph code successful Wilmington.

And contempt his troubles, Hunter remains 1 of the president's closest advisors.

The Yale Law School graduate married Kathleen Buhle successful 1993 and they stock 3 daughters: Naomi King Biden, calved Dec. 23, 1993; Finnegan Biden, calved Sept. 9, 2000; and Maisy Biden, calved successful 2001.

The mates divided up successful 2015, with Kathleen citing cause usage and infidelity among her husband's shortcomings successful her consequent divorcement filing. 

Hunter went connected to person a narration with his member Beau's widow. "Hallie and I are incredibly fortunate to person recovered the emotion and enactment we person for each different successful specified a hard time, and that's been evident to the radical who emotion america most," helium said successful a statement to Page Six when that quality got retired successful March 2017. "We've been truthful fortunate to person household and friends who person supported america each measurement of the way."

Hunter's eldest kid did her undergraduate enactment astatine Penn earlier attending Columbia Law School. She's an subordinate astatine Arnold & Porter.

(And due to the fact that it's a tiny satellite aft all, Naomi and Tiffany Trump were astatine Penn together—future presidents Donald Trump and Biden some attended their graduation successful 2016—and Tiffany shared a photograph of herself and Naomi hanging retired successful the Hamptons successful the summertime of 2018.) 

Naomi has said her grandpa—who served 2 presumption arsenic Barack Obama's vice president—would prime up the telephone for 1 of his grandkids anytime, anywhere.

"He'll beryllium onstage, giving a speech, and we'd telephone him and he'd beryllium like, 'What's wrong?!'" she shared connected PBS Newshour successful August 2020.

Naomi and now-husband Peter Neal lived with her grandparents astatine the White House for a fewer months portion readying their Nov. 19, 2022, wedding connected the South Lawn.

"I effort to punctual myself it’s the White House," Naomi told Vogue after her nuptials, "but it besides gets normalized implicit time."

On predetermination time Nov. 5, Naomi announced she and her hubby were expecting their archetypal child. 

Hunter and Kathleen named their 2nd kid aft his paternal grandmother, Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan.

She graduated from University of Pennsylvania successful 2021 and has been a fixture astatine a fig of high-profile events successful D.C. and abroad, including successful April 2023 erstwhile she accompanied grandma Jill to the coronation of King Charles III.

The president and archetypal woman were successful attendance erstwhile Hunter and Kathleen's youngest kid graduated from Penn successful 2023.

While sister Finnegan's Instagram is private, you tin cheque retired Maisie's artwork and different glimpses from her beingness connected her public account.

She besides enjoys a structured suit, sporting a acheronian overgarment and trousers paired with Air Jordans astatine her grandfather's inauguration and a Brooks Brothers pinstripe astatine an October 2023 White House State Dinner for the premier curate of Australia.

In May 2019, Hunter joined filmmaker Melissa Cohen of South Africa successful a rooftop ceremonial successful Los Angeles aft a weeks-long courtship.

According to the New Yorker, conscionable days aft their archetypal date, Hunter had "shalom" (Hebrew for hello, goodbye and peace) tattooed connected the wrong of his near bicep to lucifer Melissa's ink. A fewer days aft that, connected May 15, helium proposed.

She said yes the adjacent morning, helium bought wedding bands and a matrimony work sent implicit an officiant.

"I called my dada and said that we conscionable got married," Hunter told the magazine. "He was connected speaker, and helium said to her, 'Thank you for giving my lad the courageousness to emotion again.' And helium said to me, 'Honey, I knew that erstwhile you recovered emotion again that I'd get you back.' And my reply was, I said, 'Dad, I ever had love. And the lone happening that allowed maine to spot it was the information that you ne'er gave up connected me, you ever believed successful me.'"

Hunter was sued for kid enactment successful 2019 by Lunden Alexis Roberts, who said the embattled archetypal lad was the begetter of her girl Navy, who was calved successful August 2018.

He astatine archetypal denied having a intersexual narration with Lunden, but successful January 2020 an Arkansas justice signed disconnected connected an bid of paternity, a DNA trial having proved that helium was the child's biologic dad.

Hunter subsequently agreed to wage an undisclosed magnitude of monthly kid support, according to CNBC.

Acknowledging that helium really had 7 grandchildren for the archetypal time, the president said successful a connection to People, "Our lad Hunter and Navy's mother, Lunden, are moving unneurotic to foster a narration that is successful the champion interests of their daughter, preserving her privateness arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable going forward."

He continued, "This is not a governmental issue, it’s a household matter. Jill and I lone privation what is champion for each of our grandchildren, including Navy.”

Joe and Jill Biden welcomed girl Ashley Blazer Biden, their lone kid together, connected June 9, 1981.

The Tulane grad got her master's grade successful societal enactment from University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice successful 2010 and was subordinate manager of the Delaware Center for Justice for much than 7 years.

In 2017, Ashley founded the covering marque Livelihood, her logo—the letters LH being pierced by an arrow—a tribute to her precocious member Beau.

"We person to sometimes beryllium pulled each the mode down to sprout forward," Ashley explained to The Lily successful June 2020. "He was my bow. His crab brought maine to my knees. I had nary prime but to sprout forward, support going, support aiming astatine my ain dreams."

"I'm highly arrogant of her," Joe told E! News erstwhile she debuted the enactment astatine New York Fashion Week. "She's been trying to alteration the satellite since she's been 3 years old, and I deliberation she's going to bash it."

Ashley told TODAY she planned to usage her level arsenic archetypal girl "to advocator for societal justice, for intelligence health, to beryllium progressive successful assemblage improvement and revitalization."

When it comes to dealing with the vitriol directed astatine her family, particularly her dada and member Hunter, she told Elle in 2023, "The existent flex is staying benignant nary substance however cruel the satellite gets." 

Not that she didn't get angry. "I deliberation it's quality quality erstwhile anybody that you emotion dearly is attacked," she added, "wrong worldly is retired determination that is conscionable implicit BS."

Ashley met her hubby Howard—a integrative surgeon, prof of otolaryngology and main aesculapian serviceman of the task superior steadfast StartUp Health—through Beau.

The doc asked his aboriginal father-in-law for his support (granted) and asked Ashley to wed him astatine sunset atop a cliff successful Big Sur, Calif. He and Ashley wed successful June 2012 successful an interfaith Catholic and Jewish ceremonial astatine the aforesaid religion successful Delaware wherever she was baptized.

"I deliberation to myself, aw, God, my small girl! This can't person passed truthful quick," Joe told People before the wedding. But, helium added, "This is the close guy. And he's getting a helluva woman."

Joe is the eldest of 4 siblings, and sister Valerie Biden Owens has been a acquainted fig connected (all the) run trails successful her brother's life. In fact, she's been his closest governmental advisor for astir fractional a century.

"We each cognize him arsenic a large talker," she told Axios in an interrogation aft her large member was declared the victor of the 2020 election. "I mean: There goes Biden again—as I'm doing close now—talking and talking. But my brother's adjacent a amended listener."

Asked what she'd telephone him erstwhile helium officially became president, Valerie said, "Joey. Joe." Or, "if helium calls maine First Sister, I'll telephone him Mr. President."

"Anyone who wants to get to @JoeBiden, volition person to get past america first...We whitethorn not look intimidating, but remember, our Nana is @DrBiden..." Naomi tweeted Oct. 22, 2020, arsenic the statesmanlike run entered the homestretch. 

And she aboriginal shared a photo of the eldest grandkids hugging their grandpa erstwhile they recovered retired helium had won the predetermination connected the greeting of Nov. 7, 2020.