The 59^th quadrennial presidential election that was held on November 3 is a milestone in US history. The United States has entered a brand new era of political, economic and social changes with the arrival of the new President-elect Joe Biden alongside his teammate Kamala Harris, the elected Vice President.

After getting more than 270 Electoral College votes, Former vice president Joe Biden has won the presidency over incumbent President Donald Trump leading him to become the 46^th US president. Joe Biden or Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942 in the Blue collar city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. At his age 78, he is considered as being the oldest president in US history. Although the newly-elected president was born in Pennsylvania, he spent a large majority of his early life in Delaware, area, where he attended the elite preparatory high school Archmere Academy, the University of Delaware where he graduated with a double major in history and political science and got a law degree from Syracuse University shortly after. These are two things people may ignore about Joe Biden, the first one is, he was once struggling with stutter or speech impediment but eventually overcame it. The second is, he excelled so much in sports. Prior to his race for the Presidency, he had already served for over 36 years as a senator making him Delaware’s long-serving US senator and then accepted to work side by side with Barack Obama to become the 47^th US vice president.

For the first time in American history, the vice president position is portrayed by a female profile that was quite so long expected by many Americans, particularly, Black American women. Kamala Devi Harris, born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, is the first US female vice president with incredibly diverse race mixture ranging from African to Asian American. She is actually descended from a Jamaican-born father and an Indian mother. From her earliest age, the Harris dwelt with her mother and her sister in California, Berkeley, where she spent her entire life and dedicated it to studying law by attending Howard University and then the University of California’s Hastings College of the law. After she graduated, she was immediately offered a position at the state bar of California where she started to work as an attorney until she ended up with establishing the state’s first Bureau of Children’s Justice and emerged as state attorney general in 2010. In 2016, she won a seat in the US Senate which made her the second African-American woman and the first south Asian-American to hold such a position. Before Joe Biden chose her as his running mate, she had already planned to run for 2020 US presidential election.

They both will take office after official inauguration which is expected to take place on January 20, 2021.

Sources: The Washington post / History