Joe Biden and Jill Jacobs were set up on a blind date in March 1975, arranged by Biden's brother Frank. Biden, then a widowed U.S. senator from Delaware, was immediately taken with Jill and proposed multiple times before she accepted. They married on June 17, 1977, at the United Nations chapel in New York City. Together they have one daughter, Ashley Biden, born in 1981. Joe Biden later served as the 46th President of the United States from 2021 to 2025.
- How they met
- They were set up on a blind date in March 1975 by Biden's brother Frank, who had known Jill in college.
- Children
- One daughter together, Ashley Biden (born 1981); Joe also has two sons, Beau and Hunter, from his first marriage