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   US Election Result 2020: Democrat and former US vice president Joe Biden was declared winner of the US presidential election by several major television networks on November 7, beating Republican incumbent Donald Trump who took an industry-friendly stance on regulation. Joe Biden mounted two previous presidential bids in 1988 and 2008, never making it out of the Democratic primaries. In 2020, the third time's the charm. Let us take a look at some of the key facts on newly declared winner of the US presidential election:

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   Biden has 273 votes in the Electoral College, which is enough to win the presidential race. (Reuters Photo)

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   Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden has been a fixture in Democratic national politics since he won an upstart campaign to become a US senator from Delaware in 1972. (Reuters Photo)

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   He would chair multiple Senate committees and serve in the Senate until 2009, when he became vice president alongside President Barack Obama. (Reuters Photo)

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   Biden represented the country at international summits, and was among those in the Situation Room the night that Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. (Reuters Photo)

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   In November 2012, he and Obama celebrated their reelection in Chicago as red, white and blue confetti rained down. (Reuters Photo)

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   Nearly one-half of Biden's life has played out in the public eye. That has included moments of tragedy, such as the early deaths of his first wife and infant daughter in a car crash, and later the death of his elder son from cancer. (Reuters Photo)

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   There have also been highs, such as when Obama surprised him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2017. (Reuters Photo)

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   Biden emerged this spring as the Democratic presidential nominee from a field of about two-dozen candidates including political veterans and rising young stars. (Reuters Photo)

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    In choosing Harris as his own running mate, he enabled the breaking of another barrier -- the first Black woman to be elected vice president in America. (Reuters Photo)

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    Democratic 2020 US presidential nominee Joe Biden looks up as he carries his grandchild after speakig during his election rally, after news media announced that he has won the 2020 US presidential election, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Reuters Photo)

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    Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton welcomes Vice President Joe Biden as he disembarks from Air Force Two for a joint campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, August 15, 2016. (Reuters Photo)