During the victorious presidential campaign of Joe Biden, his wife Jill helped him a lot. Jill was Barack Obama’s vice president. Since 1977, the elected president has been married to Jill, but she is the second wife of Joe. His first wife was Neilia Hunter, who was part of a tragedy that influenced both Mr Biden’s life and career. At the beginning of the 1960s, Neilia Hunter met Mr Biden when she was at the University of Syracuse and he was at Nassau in the spring break. They eventually became a couple, and Mr Biden went to the law school in Syracuse. They were married to each other on August 27, 1966, and had three children together – Joseph “Beau” Biden, Robert Hunter Biden and Naomi Biden. Ms Hunter was a teacher and identified as her husband’s “brains” for the successful Delaware Senate campaign in 1972.
Who is Neilia Hunter Biden?.
Born on July 28, 1942, was an American teacher and the first wife of Joe Biden, who is the current president of the USA. Neilia met an accident when she was driving to collect a Christmas tree, along with her three children. She couldn’t survive the accident and died in 1972 with her one-year-old daughter, Naomi. Her two sons Beau and Hunter were critically injured but survived the car crash. Neilia was just 30 years old when she died due to a car crash. Neilia was destined to be born to Louise and Robert Hunter. She attended a secondary boarding school in Pennsylvania named Penn Hall. After school, she attended Syracuse University. She was a teacher in the Syracuse City School District.
Marriage to Joe Biden.
Neilia was married to Joe on August 27, 1966, after dating. After getting married the Bidens moved to Wilmington, Delaware. Later she gave birth to three children Joseph Robinette “Beau”, Robert Hunter and Naomi Christina “Amy.” Neilia was called the “Brains” of his election campaigns.
How Neilia died?
On Monday, December 18, 1972, when Neilia was driving to rural Valley Road in Hockessin, Delaware to buy a Christmas tree with children Naomi, Beau and Hunter, her car crashed at the intersection with Delaware Route 7. She with her three children was taken to Wilmington General Hospital where on arrival Neilia and Naomi were pronounced dead. Naomi was just one year old when she died due to a car crash. The two sons survived with multiple serious injuries. The tragedy took place when Joe Biden became U.S. senator-elect.
Final Words.
Joe Biden celebrated the 48th anniversary of his wife’s death and daughter a month prior to his election as the 46th country president.
On Dec 18, Biden and Jill, his wife, visited a cemetery in Delaware to visit the graves of his first wife, Neilia Biden, and Naomi, their thirteen-month-old daughter. On the anniversary of their deaths, before visiting their graves, Bidens family attended Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine, a Roman Catholic church. The elected President also visited their graves in November on election day morning. He was joined by his granddaughter Natalie, the only daughter of Beau. He was also accompanied by his wife and his other granddaughter, Finnegan.