Beau Biden, US vice president’s son dies of cancer
Beau Biden, son of US Vice President Joe Biden and Delaware’s former attorney general, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46, the White House says.
Beau Biden, who had been in the Walter Reed military Medical Center and receiving medical treatment as recently as last month, passed away on Saturday.
"The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words. We know that Beau's spirit will live on in all of us--especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter," said Joe Biden in a statement released by the White House on Saturday.
Obama also issued a separate statement expressing his condolences on Saturday.
“Michelle and I are grieving tonight," Obama said. "Beau took after Joe. He studied the law, like his dad, even choosing the same law school. He chased a life of public service, like his dad, serving in Iraq and as Delaware's attorney general."
Beau suffered a mild stroke in 2010, but soon recovered and went back to work. However, he was diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2013 and started treatment to remove a small lesion in his brain.
He could get "a clean bill of health" in November of that year, but his cancer recurred in the spring of 2015. He was again hospitalized but could not battle the cancer the second time.
Beau, an Iraq war veteran, served as the attorney general of Delaware for eight years between 2007 and 2015.
He also worked in the private sector before 2007 and served as a prosecutor in Philadelphia's US attorney's office for nine years.
He had had a plan to run for governor of Delaware in 2016.
Joe Biden’s family, including his first wife Neilia and their three children, suffered a car crash in December 1972 shortly after Biden won election to the US Senate.
Biden’s wife and his daughter were killed, but their two sons Beau and Hunter, were injured and survived.
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