Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) in OTL is the 46th President of the United States, having previously served as vice president under President Barack Obama from January 20, 2009 to January 20, 2017. He was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973 until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency.
Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and lived there for ten years before moving to Delaware. He became an attorney in 1969, and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times, was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation, and is the 14th-longest serving Senator in history. Biden was a long-time member and former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. His strong advocacy helped bring about U.S. military assistance and intervention during the Bosnian War. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991. He voted in favor of the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, but later proposed resolutions to alter U.S. strategy there. He has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dealing with issues related to drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties, and led creation of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and Violence Against Women Act. He chaired the Judiciary Committee during the contentious U.S. Supreme Court nominations of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2008, both times dropping out early in the race. Barack Obama selected Biden to be the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the United States. As Vice President, Biden was heavily involved in Obama's decision-making process and held the oversight role for infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package intended to help counteract the late-2000s recession.
Alternate versions of Joe Biden have been discovered in the multiverse:
- Joe Biden, 42nd President of the United States (1861: Historical Failing)
- Joe Biden, 43rd President of the United States (19th Century World War)
- Joe Biden, 44th President of the United States (Barack Obama is shot on November 4th)
- Joe Biden, 45th President of the United States (Beau Lives)
- Joe Biden, 47th Vice President of the United States (Believe in America)
- Joe Biden, 41st President of the United States (Biden '88)
- Joe Biden, 41st President of the United States (Biden vs. Bush)
- Joe Biden, 67th United States Secretary of State (Broken glass ceiling)
- Joe Biden, 45th Vice President of the United States (Bush '92)
- Joe Biden, 64th Secretary of State, United States Senator from Delaware (Byrd Timeline)
- Joe Biden, 39th President of the United States (Changed)
- Joe Biden, former United States Senator from Delaware (Double Collapse)
- Joe Biden, 47th President of the United States (Golden Jackson)
- Joe Biden, current President of the United States (Gore '88)
- Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (Hillary '08)
- Joe Biden, 47th President of the United States (Impeached)
- Joe Biden, 13th President of California (Joan of What?)
- Joe Biden, 45th President of the United States (President Dukakis)
- Joe Biden, United States Senator from Delaware (President McCain)
- Joe Biden, United States Senator from Delaware, candidate for the 2012 Democrat Party presidential nomination (President Welles)
- Joe Biden, United States Senator from Delaware (SIADD)
- Joe Biden, 36th President of the United States (The Misfire)
- Joe Biden, 46th President of the United States (Twilight of the Capitol)
- Joe Biden, 40th President of the United States (WFAC)
- Joe Biden, 44th and 46th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of America (Domus Iagiellonica)