WASHINGTON (AP)– Vice President Joe Biden has announced that his son, Beau, has died of brain cancer.Β
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The younger Biden was a lawyer, member of the Delaware National Guard and former Delaware attorney general. He was 46.Β
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Beau Biden was hospitalized earlier this month at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. At the time the vice president’s office declined to say why he was being treated.
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Beau Biden suffered a mild stroke in 2010 and underwent surgery at a Texas cancer center in 2013 to remove what was described as a small lesion.
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He announced last year that he would not seek a third term as attorney general and instead planned to run for governor in 2016.Β
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