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James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, lawyer, author, and US Marine veteran who has been serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he is the party's nominee for vice president in the 2024 election.
4 days ago · J.D. Vance (born August 2, 1984, Middletown, Ohio, U.S.) is best known as the author of Hillbilly Elegy (2016), a best-selling memoir of his experiences growing up as a member of the white working class that was published as the United States was roiling with division over the upsurge in populist support for Republican presidential candidate ...
6 days ago · Senator J.D. Vance was once critical of former President Donald J. Trump, but he was elected to the U.S. Senate with Mr. Trump’s backing in 2022. Nic Antaya for The New York Times. Senator J.D ...
6 days ago · 55. “Trump will, at most, serve four years in the White House,” Vance has said. “There is a big question about what comes after him.”. Donald Trump’s pick for vice president made a 180 ...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a 2016 memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and the social and socioeconomic problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother's parents moved when they were young.
Jun 28, 2016 · J.D. Vance chronicles his "upwardly mobile" journey from a dirt-poor boy in the backwoods of Kentucky, to a Yale-educated lawyer in Washington D.C. It is quite a journey, to be sure. J.D.'s story is one of family ties, bad choices, cyclical dysfunction, and in some cases, redemption.
Mr Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio, to a mother who struggled with addiction and a father who left the family when JD was a toddler.
