JD Vance

JD Vance
Official portrait, 2025
50th Vice President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2025
President	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Kamala Harris
Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office March 18, 2025
Preceded by	Duke Buchan
United States Senator from Ohio
In office January 3, 2023 – January 10, 2025
Preceded by	Rob Portman
Succeeded by	Jon Husted
Personal details
Born	James Donald Bowman[a] (1984-08-02) August 2, 1984 (age 40) Middletown, Ohio, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Usha Chilukuri ​ (m. 2014)​
Children	3
Parent(s)	Donald Ray Bowman Beverly Carol Aikins (née Vance)
Residence	Number One Observatory Circle
Education	Ohio State University (BA) Yale University (JD)
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Military service
Branch/service	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	2003–2007
Rank	Corporal
Unit	2nd Marine Aircraft Wing
Battles/wars	Iraq War
Awards	Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal
Writing career
Genre	Memoir
Notable works	Hillbilly Elegy
Vance's voice Vance discusses United States foreign policy Recorded April 23, 2024

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James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman;^[a] August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran who is the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate from 2023 to 2025. During his tenure as vice president, Vance has also served as the finance chair of the Republican National Committee.

Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio and raised primarily in Eastern Kentucky. After high school, Vance joined the United States Marine Corps, where he served as a military journalist from 2003 to 2007, and was deployed to the Iraq War for six months in 2005. He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in 2009 and Yale Law School with a law degree in 2013. He practiced briefly as a corporate lawyer before embarking on a career in the tech industry as a venture capitalist. His memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was published in 2016 and adapted into a film in 2020.

After initially opposing Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election, Vance became a strong Trump supporter during Trump's first presidency. He won the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, beating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. Vance served as Ohio's senator from January 2023 to January 2025. In July 2024, Trump selected Vance as his running mate before the Republican National Convention. Trump and Vance won the 2024 United States presidential election, defeating Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Vance is the first Millennial to serve as vice president, and the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history. He has been characterized as a national conservative and right-wing populist, and describes himself as a member of the postliberal right. His political positions include opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and gun control. Vance is an outspoken critic of childlessness and has acknowledged the influence of Catholic theology on his sociopolitical positions.

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