1 / 8Joe Biden (L), flanked by incoming US First Lady Jill Biden is sworn in as the 46th US President by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. 2 / 8He grew up with a stutter and would recite Yeats and Emerson to work on his public speaking.3 / 8He played on his high school football team. Mr Biden played both wide receiver and halfback on the team. In 1960 they went undefeated.4 / 8No alcohol-cigarettes -Joe Biden. loves ice cream and his favourite flavour is chocolate chip. He doesn't drink alcohol or smoke.5 / 8He has two German shepherds, named Champ and Major.6 / 8A huge car enthusiast, he still has the '67 Corvette Stingray he got from his father.7 / 8In December 1972, Mr Biden's wife Neilia and their one-year-old daughter Amy were killed in a road accident. His sons Beau and Hunter also suffered injuries in the crash. Mr Biden had been elected to the Senate for the first time, but rather than move to Washington DC, he decided to commute by train every day from Wilmington so he could spend more time with his sons.8 / 8Joe proposed to Jill five different times before she agreed to marry him, according to Vogue. 'I said, 'Not yet. Not yet. Not yet.' Because by that time, of course, I had fallen in love with the boys, and I really felt that this marriage had to work,' Jill said. 'Because they had lost their mom, and I couldn’t have them lose another mother. So I had to be 100-percent sure.'