--- title: Beau Biden, VP's Son, Says He Will Run for Governor description: Beau Biden, the eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, said he will run for governor of Delaware in 2016. canonical: https://time.com/66797/beau-biden-delaware-governor/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-17T16:05:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:47:51.580Z article:section: Politics og:title: Beau Biden, VP's Son, Says He Will Run for Governor og:description: Beau Biden, the eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, said he will run for governor of Delaware in 2016. og:url: https://time.com/66797/beau-biden-delaware-governor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc29f21ed635f5061/69868b26810bbbb889c911a8/beau-biden.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2345 og:image:height: 1319 og:image:alt: Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attends the final session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 6, 2012. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beau Biden, VP's Son, Says He Will Run for Governor twitter:description: Beau Biden, the eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, said he will run for governor of Delaware in 2016. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc29f21ed635f5061/69868b26810bbbb889c911a8/beau-biden.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Beau Biden, VP's Son, Says He'll Run for Delaware Governor > Sponsored content. 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Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attends the final session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 6, 2012. Chris Keane—Reuters  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Apr 17, 2014 4:05 PM UTC Beau Biden, the eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, said he will [run for governor](http://time.com/66684/beau-biden-plans-2016-run-for-governor-in-delaware/) of Delaware in 2016, the Associated Press reports. Biden said he won’t seek a third term as attorney general. Instead, he’ll make a go for the top job in the state his father represented in the U.S. Senate for more than three decades. The 45-year-old attorney general suffered a stroke in 2010 and underwent surgery last year at a Texas cancer center, where doctors removed what they described as a small lesion. A doctor at the Texas hospital gave him “a clean bill of health” in November, the AP reports. \[[AP](http://time.com/66684/beau-biden-plans-2016-run-for-governor-in-delaware/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/66797/beau-biden-delaware-governor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/66797/beau-biden-delaware-governor/"},"headline":"Beau Biden, VP's Son, Says He'll Run for Delaware Governor","datePublished":"2014-04-17T16:05:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:47:51.580Z","description":"The eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, Beau, has announced plans to run for governor of Delaware in 2016, backtracking on running for a third term as the state's attorney general. 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