Joe Biden became Vice President.
Joe Biden . He became the first Roman Catholic , and the first Delawarean , to be Vice President of the United States . As Vice President in the Obama administration , Biden oversaw the infrastructure spending aimed at counteracting the Great Recession , and U.S. policy toward Iraq up until the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2011 . United States presidential election, 2008 . Obama became the first African American ever to be elected president of the United States , and Joe Biden became the first Roman Catholic ever elected vice president .