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Early life and education. Vance in the U.S. Marine Corps, 2003. Vance was born James Donald Bowman on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio to Beverly Carol ( née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman (1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent.
5 days ago · J.D. Vance rose to fame 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 Donald Trump.
JD went on to serve our nation in the Iraq War, then graduated from The Ohio State University and Yale Law School. He wrote a bestselling book, Hillbilly Elegy, which was turned into a Netflix movie. He also started a business dedicated to growing jobs and opportunity in the American heartland.
1 day ago · Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a Republican who has come after “left-wing domination” in colleges and universities and criticized schools for “CRT indoctrination,” will be former President Donald ...
21 hours ago · Vance, whose wife, lawyer Usha Chilukuri Vance, is Indian American and the mother of their three children, also criticized Trump’s racist rhetoric, saying he could be “America’s Hitler ...
19 hours ago · Yes, a large part of his memoir is about his time at Yale Law. According to Vance, he received a generous financial aid package to the prestigious law school due to his disadvantaged economic background. Vance wrote in his memoir that he did appreciate his education at Yale Law and the people he met there. However, he said he felt the class ...
1 day ago · J.D. Vance, Donald J. Trump’s choice for vice president, has not lived an unexamined life. Here are 27 things to know about him, drawn from his best-selling 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy ...
