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baby sister died in a car accident in 1972. Joe and Jill Biden have a daughter, Ashley, born in 1981.
Biden has a bachelor's degree from the University of Delaware, master's degrees from West Chester University and Villanova University, and a doctoral degree from the University of Delaware. She taught English and reading in high schools for 13 years, and also taught adolescents with emotional disabilities at a psychiatric hospital. From 1993 to 2008, she was an English and writing instructor at Delaware Technical & Community College
, a lawyer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, her policy director. As second lady, Biden had a staff of eight overall and occupies a corner suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
On "The Oprah Winfrey Show" just before the inauguration, Jill Biden said that Barack Obama had offered her husband either the vice-presidency or the position of U.S. secretary of state. However, Joe Biden's spokesperson stated that Biden had only been offered one job by Obama. In May 2009, Obama announced that Biden