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WASHINGTON. — US President Barack Obama visited Vice President Joe Biden and his family on Sunday to offer condolences after the death of Biden’s son, Beau.

Beau Biden (46) who served eight years as attorney general of Delaware, died on Saturday after a recurrence of brain cancer.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, went to the US Naval Observatory, the vice president’s official residence, to offer their condolences to the Biden family.

The Obamas had been scheduled to host a reception at the White House on Sunday but it was cancelled out of respect for the Bidens.

Other Washington officials and politicians took to social media to express their sympathies over the death of Biden, who was married and had two children.

Secretary of State John Kerry called him “a son any father might hope to raise” and recalled how Beau chose to continue serving in the military in Iraq rather than be appointed to the Senate seat his father was leaving to become vice president in 2009. Former President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, offered condolences on Twitter, as did House Speaker John Boehner and potential Republican presidential nominees Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee. — Reuters.