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http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/17/beau-biden-will-seek-rd-ag-term/7819377/

Beau Biden will not seek 3rd AG term

Beau Biden said Thursday he will not seek a third term as Delaware's attorney general in November, opting instead to focus on an election two years away for governor.

Biden, who has battled health problems over the past year, made the announcement in a writtten statement. He was not available for an interview and did not schedule a press conference. Biden's statement did not indicate whether his decision to skip a third-term was affected by his health.

In August, Biden was hospitalized at a Texas cancer center, where he underwent a procedure to remove a "small lesion" from his brain. He has remained mostly away from the public eye since, appearing at few public events while working from his Wilmington office.

​Biden also was away from his office for several weeks in 2010 after suffering what was described as a "mild stroke."

Biden's announcement Thursday that he will pursue the governor's office in 2016 will have ripple effects. Lt. Gov. Matt Denn and U.S. Rep. John Carney, who lost a Democratic gubernatorial primary in 2008 to now-Gov. Jack Markell, have also been seen as potential candidates. ​

Biden was first elected attorney general in 2006, was re-elected in 2010 and dedicated significant time last year to fundraising efforts. He raised more than $1.4 million through his campaign and political action committees in 2013 and had more than $900,000 in cash on hand at the end of the year.

​Biden's political director, Molly Magarik, said as recently as two weeks ago that Biden intended to seek a third term. He had been widely expected to seek the governor's office as attorney general.

Biden's two terms in office have been marked, in some ways, by interruption and speculation about his political future. He spent a year in Iraq during his first term, deploying in October 2008 as a member of the Delaware National Guard. In January 2010, he passed on running for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by his father, Vice President Joe Biden, saying that a Senate campaign would take his focus away from "a case of great consequence," the prosecution of the pedophile pediatrician Earl Bradley.