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==Early life==

==Early life==

Biden was born at Scranton State General Hospital in Scranton, [[Pennsylvania]]<ref name="timeline">[http://biden.senate.gov/senator/timeline/ Joe Biden Timeline]</ref> and grew up in New Castle County, Delaware,<ref name="bio">[http://biden.senate.gov/senator/ Joe Biden Biography]</ref> in a middle-class family.  His father was a white-collar businessman who did well but had fallen on hard times when Biden was a youth.<ref name="bluecollar">[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/joe_bidens_mythical_bluecollar.html Joe Biden's Mythical Blue-Collar Roots], [[Real Clear Politics]]</ref>  Biden attended Archmere Academy, a private Catholic college-preparatory high school in the Wilmington, Delaware area, graduating in 1961.<ref name="bio" />  Biden took a summer job as a life guard where faced down the notorious Corn Pop of the mean streets of Wilmington to help his family pay for his schooling.<ref>https://www.theroot.com/joe-biden-s-corn-pop-story-is-a-parable-about-how-white-1838161871</ref><ref>Archmere Academy [http://www.archmereacademy.com/Default.aspx?tabid=74] Tuition for 2008-2009 is $18,450.</ref> Biden received 5 [[Vietnam war]] draft deferments. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968 where he was a member of ''Non Compos Mentis'' and graduated near the bottom of his class<ref name="bio" /> After finishing law school Biden worked in the Wilmington, Del. public defenders office where he claims to have represented a member of the [[Black Panthers]];<ref>https://www.aaihs.org/the-1968-occupation-of-black-wilmington/#fnref-43519-4</ref> no evidence has ever been produced to support Biden's claim he ever represented a member of the Black Panthers.

Biden was born at Scranton State General Hospital in Scranton, [[Pennsylvania]]<ref name="timeline">[http://biden.senate.gov/senator/timeline/ Joe Biden Timeline]</ref> and grew up in New Castle County, Delaware,<ref name="bio">[http://biden.senate.gov/senator/ Joe Biden Biography]</ref> in a middle-class family.  His father was a white-collar businessman who did well but had fallen on hard times when Biden was a youth.<ref name="bluecollar">[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/joe_bidens_mythical_bluecollar.html Joe Biden's Mythical Blue-Collar Roots], [[Real Clear Politics]]</ref>  Biden attended Archmere Academy, a private Catholic college-preparatory high school in the Wilmington, Delaware area, graduating in 1961.<ref name="bio" />  Biden took a summer job as a life guard where faced down the notorious Corn Pop of the mean streets of Wilmington to help his family pay for his schooling.<ref>https://www.theroot.com/joe-biden-s-corn-pop-story-is-a-parable-about-how-white-1838161871</ref><ref>Archmere Academy [http://www.archmereacademy.com/Default.aspx?tabid=74] Tuition for 2008-2009 is $18,450.</ref> Biden received 5 [[Vietnam war]] draft deferments. He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1968 where he was a member of ''Non Compos Mentis'' and graduated near the bottom of his class<ref name="bio" /> After finishing law school Biden worked in the Wilmington, Del. public defenders office where he claims to have represented a member of the [[Black Panthers]];<ref>https://www.aaihs.org/the-1968-occupation-of-black-wilmington/#fnref-43519-4</ref> no evidence has ever been produced to support Biden's claim he ever represented a member of the Black Panthers.