Joe Biden won the 2020 US election.
So there is not only a new president, but also a new first lady: Jill Biden.
On November 3rd, Jill Biden became the next US First Lady.
Her husband Joe Biden challenges Donald Trump and won the presidential election.
Jill Biden published a children's book about her husband's life.
Wilmington -
Eleanor Roosevelt
,
Jacky Kennedy
,
Betty Ford
,
Hillary Clinton
,
Michelle Obama
& Co. - the
USA
already had some
first ladies
who caused a sensation during and after their husband's presidency - and who were popular with the population.
Before the 59th presidential election, the first lady went by the name
Melania Trump
.
Joe Biden's election victory made it clear that the USA would get a new first lady:
Jill Biden
, Wife of the Democratic presidential candidate.
Outside the country's borders, Jill Biden did not yet play a major role - that is about to change.
Who is the woman?
Jill Biden
was born Jill Tracy Jacobs in
New Jersey in
1951 and grew up in
Pennsylvania
with her four young sisters
.
After childhood, the eldest child in the family enrolled in a degree in fashion marketing, which she dropped out after a year
to study English
at the University of
Delaware
.
At the age of 19, she married a college football player, from whom she separated after four years.
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Meanwhile a well-rehearsed team: Jill and Joe Biden in the last TV duel in the US election campaign in 2020. At the beginning of their relationship, however, both faced difficult times.
© Julio Cortez / AP / dpa
Jill Biden: Blind Date with Joe - "Mom, I finally met a gentleman"
In 1975 she met
Joe Biden,
then a member of the
US Senate
, on a blind date organized by Joe's brother Frank.
After the meeting, Jill is said to have been very enthusiastic about Joe, who was almost nine years her senior, and said to her mother: "Mom, I've finally met a gentleman."
The chemistry between Joe and Jill seemed to fit right away.
The positive-minded Jill brought Biden's zest for life back and pulled him out of a deep valley of tears.
In 1972 Joe's first wife and childhood
sweetheart Neilia
and
daughter
Naomi were killed in a car accident.
The two sons
Beau
and
Hunter
survived seriously injured.
Jill
came into a difficult family
environment
at first glance, but managed to build a good relationship with the two sons relatively quickly.
She even temporarily gave up her job as an English teacher, which she started after graduating in 1975, to raise the children.
First Biden's sons and later their daughter
Ashley
, who was born in 1981.
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Joe Biden climbed the corporate ladder and hoisted himself to the presidential nomination.
Jill was second lady when Joe was Vice President - will she soon be first wife?
© Robert Ghement / picture alliance
2020 US election: Jill Biden - unfamiliar role as bodyguard and author
During
Joe Biden's
presidential
candidacy in
1988 and 2008, Jill kept her job while working as an election campaigner and English teacher.
In the 2020 election campaign, she played a more active role and was seen very often at events.
In March, the then 69-year-old became an internet star with her courageous efforts against two troublemakers during an election campaign appearance of her husband.
She fended off two vegan activists who had stormed the stage.
"I'm probably the only presidential candidate whose wife is also the Secret Service," the ex-vice president later joked.
After her husband became the designated Democratic candidate, Jill published the children's book "
Joey: The Story of Joe Biden
"
in June 2020, which
tells the story of the stuttering and bullied boy.
2020 US election: after Obama’s Second Lady, Jill Biden becomes First Lady
When
Joe Biden
conquered the White House
alongside
Barack Obama in
2008
,
Jill Biden became
US Second Lady
.
A warm personality, full of energy, eloquent, with a penchant for colorful dresses, high leather boots and pearl jewelry.
And professionally independent: even as a
second lady
, the doctor of education taught at a so-called community college, a kind of intermediate level between school and university.
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First and Second Lady: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden.
© epa / Kamil Krzaczynski / dpa
Unlike the Trumps, the Bidens, who live near Wilmington in the US state of Delaware, always demonstrate closeness and teasing affection. “I'm Joe Biden and I'm Jill's husband,” the presidential candidate likes to introduce himself, the old-school gentleman. Apparently still.
(as with material from afp)
