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Do Joe and Jill Biden have children together?
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Who is Jill Biden?
Born in 1951, Jill is 69 years old. She was born Hammonton, NJ.
She is a former teacher and was the Second Lady of the United States from 2009-2017 under the Obama administration.
But will now become the First Lady as husband prepares to officially become the 46th President.
The couple were married on June, 17, 1977 - her second marriage.
Jill was previously married to in 1970, but they separated four years later.
Do Joe and Jill Biden have children together?
Joe and Jill have just the one child between them, a daughter called Ashley Blazer Biden.
She was born June 8, 1981 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Jill has also been a stepmother to Joe's sons Beau and Hunter.
The eldest of the Biden quartet, Beau sadly died in May 2015 due to brain cancer at age of 46.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden also had a daughter, Naomi, with first wife .
But at the age of 13 months, she died in a car accident in 1972 that also claimed the life of her mother, Neilia.
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What does Ashley Biden do?
Ashley is the only daughter of Jill and Joe Biden.
The 39-year-old is , and lives a life out of the spotlight.
She went to Tulane University and received a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ashley started her career as a social worker/career development and education liaison, but later went into social justice advocacy.
She once worked for the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families, where she developed develops programs for children in the juvenile-justice, foster-care, and mental-health systems.
She was named executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice in 2014, which focuses on criminal justice reform.
"My dad always taught me that silence is complicity and that I must stand up for anyone who was being treated unfairly. That has stayed with me through adulthood, and is the guiding principle in my professional life," she explained to .
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Is Ashley married?
Ashley is married to Dr. Howard Krein.
The two wed at Brandywine Church in Greenville, Delaware in early June 2012.
Krein graduated from Rutgers University and received a medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia,
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The 53-year-old is now an otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia.
He is also an assistant professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery and a director of the Herbert Kean Center for Facial Aesthetics at the hospital.
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