Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Biden adviser to take Senate seat

|
|
 
  
Vice President-elect Joe Biden (UPI Photo/Brian Kersey) 
Published: Nov. 24, 2008 at 3:53 PM

WILMINGTON, Del., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Ted Kaufman will replace Vice President-elect Joe Biden in the U.S. Senate, Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner announced at a news conference Monday.

Kaufman, a longtime Biden adviser, is seen as a placeholder until 2010 when Beau Biden, the vice president-elect's son and Delaware's attorney general, can run, The Hill reported. Beau Biden is in Iraq and had said he didn't want to be appointed to his father's Senate seat.

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and ran for re-election this year concurrent with his run on the presidential ticket.

Topics: Beau Biden, Joe Biden, Joseph Biden, Ruth Ann, Ruth Ann Minner
© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
The Tibetan Moniam Festival in China Super Bowl XLVI ticker tape victory parade The making of the Oscars
The Chicago Auto Show The Most Desirable Women of 2012 Tu Bishvat Migron settlement
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 25
Meryl Streep and Colin Firth attend the "BAFTA" ceremony in London
View Caption
fark
Note to the youngsters out there: if a legend dies and you want to sneak into his or her inner sanctum...
You don't have to be too smart to coach high school sports. Just smart enough to not post nude photos...
There's vandalizing your school, and then there's doing a million dollars damage to your school
Police say Taylor Burnham, 18, was only wearing cowboy boots as she led police on a Sunday morning...
If you're working as a dog groomer and accidentally chop off a dog's ear, don't try to glue it back,...
After a two-year sting operation, the Feds shut down ... an Amish farm. Another victory in the war...