President Joe Biden is facing criticism after saying I may be Irish but I m not stupid during a recent town hall. Some are calling his statement a hate crime and an anti-Irish stereotype.
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Biden was born Jill Tracy Jacobs in June 1951 in neighboring Atlantic County s Hammonton, also the birthplace of her father, Donald Carl Jacobs. She was the oldest of five sisters, followed by Bonny, Jan, Kim and Kelly.
When Biden was a child, the family moved to Hatboro, Pennsylvania, about halfway between Philadelphia and Trenton. Both Donald and wife Bonny are now buried in its cemetery, their funeral notices said.
Biden s early days in South Jersey are well-known. But less noted are her childhood roots in Mahwah, in Bergen County.
You won t find it mentioned in her Wikipedia biography, but 8-year-old Jill Jacobs arrival at Betsy Ross Elementary School is carefully preserved in its 1959 attendance records, in teacher Harriett Cook s perfect handwriting, which show her moving from Hatboro.