Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Biden became Vice President on January 20 , 2009 , and is the first person from Delaware and first Roman Catholic to be Vice President . When Biden became Vice President , he said he would do things differently from Dick Cheney , who had been Vice President before him .
Simplified: Biden is the first Roman Catholic and the first Delawarean to become Vice President of the United States .