A Guide to Joe Biden's Family: His Wives, 4 Kids, Grandchildren and More

Joe Biden’s family has become somewhat accustomed to being in the spotlight, both before and after he moved into the White House. The same year Biden won his U.S. Senate seat in 1972, his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, and their three children, Beau, Hunter and Naomi 'Amy' Biden, were involved in a car accident. Neilia and 13-month-old Amy were killed in the crash, while Beau and Hunter survived with serious injuries. After a period of grieving, Joe’s brother Frank Biden set him up on a blind date with Jill Biden, née Jacobs, in 1975. The couple married two years later and welcomed their daughter, Ashley, in June 1981. “She gave me back my life,” the politician wrote of Jill in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. “She made me start to think my family might be whole again.” Joe was elected as the 46th president of the United States in 2020 but dropped out of the 2024 presidential race to endorse his Vice President, Kamala Harris. Harris ultimately lost the election to Donald Trump. During the final month of his presidency, Joe made history after becoming the great-grandfather to serve as president. Scroll down to get to know the Biden family:

Joe Biden’s family has become somewhat accustomed to being in the spotlight, both before and after he moved into the White House. The same year Biden won his U.S. Senate seat in 1972, his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, and their three children, Beau, Hunter and Naomi 'Amy' Biden, were involved in a car accident. Neilia and 13-month-old Amy were killed in the crash, while Beau and Hunter survived with serious injuries. After a period of grieving, Joe’s brother Frank Biden set him up on a blind date with Jill Biden, née Jacobs, in 1975. The couple married two years later and welcomed their daughter, Ashley, in June 1981. “She gave me back my life,” the politician wrote of Jill in his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. “She made me start to think my family might be whole again.” Joe was elected as the 46th president of the United States in 2020 but dropped out of the 2024 presidential race to endorse his Vice President, Kamala Harris. Harris ultimately lost the election to Donald Trump. During the final month of his presidency, Joe made history after becoming the great-grandfather to serve as president. Scroll down to get to know the Biden family:

Joe was born in Pennsylvania in November 1942 to Joseph Biden Sr. and Jean Biden (pictured), who had married the year before. His father died in September 2002 at age 86, and his mother died in January 2010 at age 92.

Joe is the oldest of four siblings. His sister, Valerie Biden Owens (pictured), has played a substantial role in all of his political campaigns dating back to his first Senate run. Valerie served as a U.S. senior adviser to the United Nations General Assembly and is the vice chair of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. Joe and Valerie have two younger brothers, Frank and Jim Biden.

After meeting in the Bahamas, Joe and his first wife married in August 1966. They welcomed sons Beau and Hunter (pictured) in February 1969 and February 1970 and daughter Amy in November 1971. Like Jill, Neilia worked as a teacher and played an integral role in Joe’s political career. The New York native and Amy died in December 1972 on their way to buy a Christmas tree with Beau and Hunter. Neilia was 30.

Born Jill Jacobs, Joe’s second wife grew up in Pennsylvania and went on to obtain degrees from the University of Delaware, West Chester University and Villanova University. She worked as a high school English teacher for 13 years in addition to teaching disabled children at a psychiatric hospital. She made the move to higher education in 1993, when she became an instructor at Delaware Technical & Community College. She has worked as a professor at Northern Virginia Community College since 2009.

Jill was previously married to Bill Stevenson from February 1970 to May 1975. After tying the knot with Joe in June 1977, she became a stepmother to his surviving kids, Beau and Hunter, before giving birth to daughter Ashley. During her time as second lady from 2009 to 2017, Jill worked to bring awareness to military families and breast cancer prevention. She continued working full-time as a teacher while serving as FLOTUS, making her the first to do so.

Born Joseph Biden III, Beau followed in his father’s footsteps with a career in public service. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University College of Law, he joined the military and served in Iraq from 2008 to 2009. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service. Beau was elected the 44th attorney general of Delaware in 2006 and held the title until 2015.

Beau married Hallie Biden (née Olivere) in November 2002, and they welcomed daughter Natalie in August 2004 and son Hunter (named after his uncle) in 2006. Beau decided not to seek a third term as attorney general after being diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2013. He succumbed to the disease in May 2015 at age 46.

Born Robert Hunter Biden, Joe’s second eldest child is a graduate of Georgetown University and Yale University, where he obtained a law degree. He is a founding partner of the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners and served on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019.

While volunteering at a church in Oregon in 1993, Hunter met Kathleen Biden (née Buhle), whom he married later that year. The pair went on to welcome three children together, Naomi, Finnegan and Maisy, before separating in October 2015 and divorcing in April 2017. In the midst of their split, Hunter entered into a two-year relationship with his late brother Beau’s widow, Hallie. Joe and Jill gave their blessing to the unconventional romance, saying in a statement at the time, “We are happy for them.”

Hunter, who has been open about struggling with drugs and alcohol in the past, went on to have children with stripper Lunden Roberts and filmmaker Melissa Cohen, whom he married in May 2019. His youngest child is named Beau after his late brother.

Hunter received a presidential pardon from his father in December 2024 after being convicted of federal gun possession and tax evasion charges.

Joe and Jill’s only child together attended private school in Delaware before studying cultural anthropology at Tulane University in Louisiana. She went on to get a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania. Ashley served as the executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019 and founded the fashion company Livelihood in 2017.

Ashley met her husband, Howard Krein, in 2010 after being introduced by her half-brother Beau. She married the plastic surgeon in June 2012. A representative for Ashley confirmed to The Philadelphia Inquirer in August 2025 that she filed for divorce from Krein.

Beau and Hallie’s children recited the Pledge of Allegiance in a video that played during the 2020 Democratic National Convention. “Pop told us that this election would be totally different from any other election ever,” Natalie said at the time. “He was worried how it would affect his kids.”

When Hunter and Kathleen’s firstborn daughter graduated from Columbia Law School in May 2020, Joe delivered a keynote address at the ceremony. Naomi later tweeted, “I am proud to be your granddaughter every single day @JoeBiden.”

Naomi wed her husband, Peter Neal, on the lawn of the White House in November 2022. In January 2025, Joe announced that his granddaughter welcomed her first child.

"The good news is I'm a great-grandfather as of today," the President said according to a White House pool report.

Hunter and Kathleen’s second daughter got her name from Joe’s late mother, whose maiden name was Finnegan. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, the alma mater of many of her relatives, in 2021.

Naomi and Finnegan’s younger sister, Maisy, plays basketball and is best friends with Obama’s daughter Sasha Obama, her former classmate at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Maisy is also a University of Pennsylvania alum, having graduated from the school in 2023.

Cuffe and King called it quits after two months of marriage in December 2021 and had their marriage annulled in July 2022.