Biden was born on June 8, 1981 in Wilmington, Delaware.[1][2] She is the daughter of Jill Biden and Joe Biden, the former Second Lady and Vice President of the United States.[3] She is the half-sister of Hunter Biden and the late Beau Biden, her father's children from his first marriage to Neilia Hunter.[4][5] Biden is a great-great granddaughter of Edward Francis Blewitt.[6] She is of English, French, and Irish descent on her father's side and English, Scottish, and Sicilian descent on her mother's side.[7][8][9]