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- Hunter Biden, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's middle child, spoke at the Democratic National Convention on its fourth and final night, delivering an emotional speech about his father.
- Previously at the center of a controversy with President Donald Trump's administration over a possible conflict of interest involving a business he was involved in and the Ukrainian government, Hunter Biden's personal life has long created tension for his father's political career.
- Despite being cleared of any wrongdoing, his entanglement in the administration's contact with Ukraine proved to be controversial, but it remains to be seen how this may impact his father's bid for the presidency.
- See how Biden rose through the ranks of Washington.
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Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden's middle child, gave a speech with younger sister Ashley Biden on the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention.
Hunter was at the center of President Donald Trump's Ukraine scandal that launched an impeachment inquiry.
The 49-year-old's personal life has created tension as it has played out amid his father's political life for years, and is now coming into sharper focus as his dad has led the field of Democratic voters for months.
The controversies escalated on November 20, when DNA results confirmed he fathered a child with a different woman while dating Hallie Biden, his brother's widow. While he dismissed the claims by the child's mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts, earlier in the year, court filings now assert that he accepts the child is his.
See how Hunter Biden rose through the ranks of Washington, found himself involved in Trump's latest scandal, and discovered he was a father again in 2019.
Joe Biden's sons have been well-known fixtures in his public life since they were children.
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Joe Biden was sworn into office for a Delaware Senate seat in a Wilmington, Delaware, hospital where his two young sons, Hunter and his brother Beau, were taken after being severely injured in a car accident that killed Biden's wife and baby daughter, Naomi, in 1972.
The senator's daily 90-minute train commute to Washington, DC, and back to Delaware to care for his sons earned him the nickname "Amtrak Joe."
Biden later married Jill Jacobs, Hunter and Beau's stepmother, in 1977. The brothers' half-sister, Ashley, was born on June 8, 1981.
Hunter Biden followed in his father's political footsteps and worked his way up in Washington.
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Hunter Biden studied at Georgetown University and graduated in 1992. It was while earning his undergraduate history degree that he began to differ from his teetotaler father as he began to ramp up his social drinking habit into smoking Marlboro Reds and occasionally using cocaine, according to a 2019 interview with The New Yorker.
After graduation, he spent a year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, working in Portland, Oregon, before earning a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1996.
In 1997, Hunter Biden returned to the family's roots in Wilmington, Delaware, where he began a career that immediately caused conflict-of-interest questions.
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Hunter Biden bought a historic estate in Wilmington in 1997, where he lived with his wife, young daughters, and brother Beau. He assumed a role as an executive vice president at MBNA bank but later said he disliked the stiff corporate culture.
"If you forgot to wear your MBNA lapel pin, someone would stop you in the halls," he later told The New Yorker.
His role at the bank raised eyebrows as MBNA was known as a massive donor to several of Joe Biden's campaigns over the years, but he stayed with the company for nearly five years.
In 1998, he reached out to William Oldaker, a Washington, DC-based lawyer who had worked on Joe Biden's 1987 presidential campaign about getting a job in President Bill Clinton's administration, according to The New Yorker.
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