Pinkerton: Joe Biden, First Elected in the 1970s, Is Bringing Back the 1970s
Pinkerton: Joe Biden, First Elected in the 1970s, Is Bringing Back the 1970s When Joe Met Jimmy Joe Biden was first elected to public office in 1970, the same year that Jimmy Carter was elected governor of Georgia. Two years later in 1972, Biden was elected as a senator from Delaware, and four years after that in 1976, Carter was elected to the presidency with Biden as a worker bee on his behalf. So, during the late 1970s, Biden served in the Senate while Carter was in the White House. Then in 1980, when Carter was running for re-election, Biden appeared at the Democratic National C...