Joe Biden’s Scranton neighborhood turned out a president-elect, governor, senators, other leaders
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden and Jill listen during a COVID-19 memorial, with lights placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington, the night before his inauguration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP
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By Borys Krawczeniuk | Times-Tribune
President-elect Joe Biden likes to joke how he had to leave Scranton’s Green Ridge neighborhood and move to Delaware because he knew that Casey guy down the street would block his political path in Pennsylvania.
The timelines don’t match up, of course. Biden was still a kid when his family moved around 1952 or 1953, and future Gov. Robert P. Casey Sr. graduated from Holy Cross College in 1953, but the joke carries a point.
Washington Avenue in Scranton, about 8 blocks long, has produced a governor, two state auditor generals, a state treasurer, two U.S. Senators, two congressmen, a federal judge. a city mayor, two city councilmen, the vice president and now the president of the U.S.