() – This is a glimpse into the life of J.D. VanceRepublican senator from Ohio and US vice presidential candidate.
Birthdate: August 2, 1984
Place of birth: Middletown, Ohio
Birth name: James Donald Bowman
Father: Donald Bowman
Mother: Beverly Aikins, nurse
Marriage: Usha (Chilukuri) Vance (since 2014)
Children: Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel
Training: Ohio State University, BA 2009; Yale Law School, J.D. 2013.
Military service: US Marine Corps, 2003-2007, Corporal
Religion: Catholic
- participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- His mother struggled with drug addiction. He was raised primarily by his maternal grandparents.
- He has changed his middle and last name several times: James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel and James David Vance. Initially, his middle name and last name changed when his mother remarried. When he married, he and his wife changed their last name to Vance.
- Yale Law Professor Amy Chua convinced Vance to write his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.”
- He was a key voice in the “Never Trump” movement during the 2016 presidential election and has publicly criticized former President Donald Trump. Vance liked tweets in 2016 and 2017 that harshly criticized Trump and its policies, and in a review of Vance’s media appearances by ‘s KFiledid anti-Trump comments in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Vance deleted previous anti-Trump tweets prior to his announcement in July 2021 that he would run for Ohio’s open Senate seat.
2014-2015: He works as a trial attorney at the Sidley Austin firm.
2016-2017: works at Mithril Capital Management.
June 28, 2016: “Hillbilly Elegy” is published, chronicling Vance’s childhood in a poor town in the Rust Belt of Ohio.
March 27, 2017: He joins Revolution LLC as a partner.
2019: forms Narya Capital.
2020: “Hillbilly Elegy” is adapted into a Netflix movie.
July 1, 2021: Announces that he will run for the open Ohio Senate seat.
July 5, 2021: On Fox News, Vance apologizes for criticizing Trump and asks viewers not to judge him by his past statements.
November 8, 2022: He is elected to the US Senate.
July 15, 2024 – Trump appoints Vance as his running mate.
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