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    BornJill Tracy Jacobs · June 3, 1951 · Hammonton, New Jersey, U.S.
    Political partyDemocratic
    SpousesBill Stevenson · (m. 1970; div. · 1975) · Joe Biden (m. · 1977)
    ChildrenAshley Biden
    Early life

    Jill Tracy Jacobs was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey. She is the oldest of five sisters. Her father, Donald Carl Jacobs, was a bank teller and asignalman in the U.S. Navy during World War II who … See more

    Education, career, marriages, and family

    Jacobs enrolled in Brandywine Junior College in Pennsylvania for one semester. She intended to study fashion merchandising but found it unsatisfying. She married Bill Stevenson, a former college football player, … See more

    Role in 2008 presidential campaign

    Despite personally opposing the Iraq War, Biden had not wanted her husband to run in the 2004 presidential election, to the point where she interrupted one strategy meeting discussing the possibility by entering in a swimsuit wi… See more

    Second Lady of the United States (2009–2017)

    Following the election of the Obama–Biden ticket, she and her husband moved into Number One Observatory Circle (in January 2009), the official vice presidential residence in Washington. But as the new second lad… See more

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