Age 30: Joe Biden is seen on Dec. 13, 1972. When he was elected to the Senate, he was 29 years old, but he turned 30 (a constitutional requirement) before being sworn in. | AP Photo Age 30: Joe Biden is shown in Washington on Dec. 12, 1972. One week later, his wife and daughter were killed in a car crash in his home state of Delaware. | Henry Griffin/AP Photo Age 30: Joe Biden talks to his sons shortly before being sworn in as a senator on Jan. 5, 1973. Beau and Hunter were hospitalized with injuries sustained in the December 1972 car crash that killed their mother and sister. | Brian Horton/AP Photo Age 40: Sen. Joe Biden holds a Capitol Hill news conference on March 30,1983, to discuss short-range NATO nuclear weapons in Europe. | Ron Edmonds/AP Photo Age 40: Sen. Joe Biden shares a laugh with Gov. Joseph Brennan (left) in Augusta, Maine, on Sept. 30, 1983. | Pat Wellenbach/AP Photo Age 50: Sen. Joe Biden questions Attorney General-designate Zoë Baird during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 21, 1993. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is at right. | AP Photo Age 50: Sen. Joe Biden is seen in front of an armored personnel carrier at the U.N.-controlled Sarajevo Airport in Bosnia on April 9, 1993. | Michael Stravato/AP Photo Age 60: Sens. Joe Biden and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) discuss the war in Iraq on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Oct. 12, 2003. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Age 60: Defense Secretary William Perry listens as Sen. Joe Biden discusses security issues involving North Korea on March 5, 2003. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Age 70: President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden on Dec. 19, 2012. The topic of the press briefing was gun control in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. | Charles Dharapak/AP Photo Age 70: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice President Joe Biden walk at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 1, 2013. | Markus Schreiber/AP Photo President Joe Biden smiles at the White House on Nov. 9, 2022. He turned 80 on Sunday, Nov. 20. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo
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Age 30: Joe Biden is seen on Dec. 13, 1972. When he was elected to the Senate, he was 29 years old, but he turned 30 (a constitutional requirement) before being sworn in. | AP Photo 
Age 30: Joe Biden is shown in Washington on Dec. 12, 1972. One week later, his wife and daughter were killed in a car crash in his home state of Delaware. | Henry Griffin/AP Photo 
Age 30: Joe Biden talks to his sons shortly before being sworn in as a senator on Jan. 5, 1973. Beau and Hunter were hospitalized with injuries sustained in the December 1972 car crash that killed their mother and sister. | Brian Horton/AP Photo 
Age 40: Sen. Joe Biden holds a Capitol Hill news conference on March 30,1983, to discuss short-range NATO nuclear weapons in Europe. | Ron Edmonds/AP Photo 
Age 40: Sen. Joe Biden shares a laugh with Gov. Joseph Brennan (left) in Augusta, Maine, on Sept. 30, 1983. | Pat Wellenbach/AP Photo 
Age 50: Sen. Joe Biden questions Attorney General-designate Zoë Baird during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 21, 1993. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) is at right. | AP Photo 
Age 50: Sen. Joe Biden is seen in front of an armored personnel carrier at the U.N.-controlled Sarajevo Airport in Bosnia on April 9, 1993. | Michael Stravato/AP Photo 
Age 60: Sens. Joe Biden and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) discuss the war in Iraq on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Oct. 12, 2003. | Alex Wong/Getty Images 
Age 60: Defense Secretary William Perry listens as Sen. Joe Biden discusses security issues involving North Korea on March 5, 2003. | Alex Wong/Getty Images 
Age 70: President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden on Dec. 19, 2012. The topic of the press briefing was gun control in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. | Charles Dharapak/AP Photo 
Age 70: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice President Joe Biden walk at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 1, 2013. | Markus Schreiber/AP Photo 
President Joe Biden smiles at the White House on Nov. 9, 2022. He turned 80 on Sunday, Nov. 20. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo 
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