Joe Biden’s personal tragedies have shaped his career, from policy to politicking, learning to mourn as a public figure and relying on his history of loss to reach out to voters, including during his successful 2020 campaign for president.
In December 1972, the former vice president – then a 30-year-old senator-elect from Delaware, weeks away from being sworn into office – lost his first wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi in a car accident.
