Former Delaware Attorney General, Beau Biden, son of U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, is dead. He died on Saturday after battling brain cancer.Beau, 46, sought aggressive treatment and had been hospitalized this month at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre outside Washington.
He was diagnosed with brain cancer in August 2013 and underwent surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. After getting a “a clean bill of health” in November of that year, his cancer recurred in the spring of 2015, the vice president’s office said.
“Beau embodied my father’s saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did,” the vice president said.“In the words of the Biden family: Beau Biden was, quite simply, the finest man any of us have ever known.”
“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,” he said.
After eight years as Attorney General in Delaware, Beau Biden joined the investor law firm Grant & Eisenhofer in 2015.
He served a year-long tour in Iraq as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard. He suffered a mild stroke in 2010.
President Barack Obama said he and his wife, Michelle Obama, were grieving. He paid warm tribute to Beau Biden, saying he took after his father.
“Like his dad, Beau was a good, big-hearted, devoutly Catholic and deeply faithful man, who made a difference in the lives of all he touched, and he lives on in their hearts.”
Former US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, expressed condolences on Twitter on Saturday.
“My heart is broken for the family of Beau Biden – a wonderful man who served his country with devotion and lived his life with courage,” she wrote.
