His classmates tarred him with the nickname “Dash,” for the way sounds came off his lips. Joe Jr.’s tribulations dogged him into high school at the Archmere Academy, a private Catholic school for boys. landed a job selling cars in Wilmington, Delaware, and moved the family into an apartment in the suburb of Claymont. As author Richard Ben Cramer told the story, “By the time he got to the top, the five bucks wasn’t the point anymore. But Joe took the gamble and scrambled up the side of the black mountain. The two-hundred-foot mountain-made up of waste material from coal mine shafts-was hot and dangerous along its surface were invisible ash pockets that could collapse with a footstep, dropping a foolhardy young kid into the burning center. In industrial Scranton, at around age ten, he accepted a $5 dare from a local kid to climb to the top of a culm mountain. The effort toughened him and endowed him with prodigious confidence that sometimes veered into recklessness. Kindergarten speech therapy did not work so he decided to fight his battle on his own. He endured bullies and the shame that accompanies the affliction. had been joined by his sister Valerie two brothers, James and Frank, would complete the family.Īs a child, Joe Jr. After a couple of failed business ventures, he returned to the coal-mining town of Scranton where he took what work he could get to support the family.
But after the war, his fortunes reversed, and Joe Sr. left Scranton to run the Boston office he lived the high life, driving fast cars, hunting, and haunting the polo fields. Biden’s father prospered during the war when an uncle gave him a job in his lucrative manufacturing company that provided sealant for merchant marine ships. The first child of Catherine Eugenia “Jean” Finnegan Biden and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr., Joey, as he was known, was a scrappy kid from a working-class Irish Catholic family.
was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as World War II raged overseas.
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