Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (Photo : Reuters)
Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III, United States veteran, dies at the early age of 46 on May 30, Saturday, after fighting brain cancer for several years. He is the eldest son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and was born in Wilmington, Delaware on February 3, 1969.
In 2010, Beau was admitted to Christiana Hospital in Newark Delaware due to headache, numbness, and paralysis. In August 2013, he was admitted to MD Anderson Cancer Center, the world's most known cancer treatment center, where he underwent surgery and a normal course of radiation and chemotherapy.
Recently, Beau was confined at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center due to a reoccurrence of brain cancer and he died there just 10 days later. He had two children with his wife Hallie, daughter Natalie and son Hunter.
In a statement obtained by Washington Post, the Vice President said, "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."
In 1972, Beau's mother and his sister died in a horrible car accident after buying family Christmas tree. Only Beau and his brother, Hunter, survived the accident after being critically injured, NBC News reported.
Beau became the rising political star of the family after delivering a stirring introduction of his father at the Democratic Convention in Denver in 2008. He served as the attorney general of Delaware, and served the military in Iraq for one year.
U.S. President Barack Obama defined Beau as a devoutly Catholic and a good, big-hearted, and deeply faithful man, who made difference in the lives of all he touched. The president said that for all that Beau achieved in his life, nothing made him prouder and happier and "nothing claimed a fuller focus of his love and devotion than his family."
