JD Vance Personal Life: Married Life, Career and Military

American politician, author, lawyer, and Marine Corps veteran James David Vance was born on August 2, 1984. He is currently vying to become President Donald Trump’s 50th vice president. He has a law degree from Yale Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University. He will serve as Ohio’s representative in the U.S. Senate from 2023 to 2025.

Vance defeated Democratic candidate Tim Ryan to win the Ohio U.S. Senate election in 2022. During Trump’s first term as president, Vance, who previously opposed Trump’s candidacy in 2016, became an ardent Trump supporter. US President Donald Trump selected Vance as his running mate in July 2024. Vance was a senator from Ohio until January 2025, when he resigned.

He is the first millennial and the third-youngest person in U.S. history to serve as vice president. Vance is considered a right-wing populist and national conservative whose political views include opposition to gun control, gay marriage, and abortion. In addition, he condemns childlessness and admits that his socio-political views are influenced by Catholic theology.

JD Vance Personal Life and Education

James Donald Vance was born in Middletown, Ohio in 1984 and is of Appalachian and Scots-Irish heritage. He was adopted by his mother’s third husband, Bob Hamel after his parents divorced. Taking his uncle’s first name, his mother renamed him James David Hamel. Vance experienced drug addiction, abuse, and poverty during his childhood. His maternal grandparents, James and Bonnie Vance, whom he called “Papa” and “Mama”, raised him and his sister, Lindsay.

After graduating from Middletown High School in 2003, he joined the US Marine Corps as a military journalist. During his four years of service, he spent six months in Iraq in 2005. Vance was promoted to the rank of corporal and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal as well as the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal.

Name	James David Vance (Known as JD Vance)
Occupation	Vice President of the United States
Height	1.88 m
Date of Birth	August 2, 1984
Age	40 years old
Birthplace	Middletown, Ohio, United States
Wife	Usha Vance (m. 2014)
Kids	Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel
Party	Republican Party

Married Life of JD Vance

Vance, a former Supreme Court Justice, grew up in a low-income household with his grandmother and single mother. In 2013, while studying at Yale Law School, he met UshaChilukuri. Usha was blessed by a Hindu priest, and Vance’s best friend JamilJiwani read passages from the Bible during their interfaith wedding in 2014 in Kentucky.

Vance was thinking of becoming a Catholic after being raised in a conservative, evangelical Protestant household. He chose Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation saint and was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in August 2019.

Vance believed that Augustine offered an intellectual framework for understanding Christianity and that Catholicism was true. He has a German Shepherd dog named Atlas and is influenced by Peter Thiel.

JD Vance Career

Before relocating to San Francisco to work in the technology sector, Vance, a former law student and corporate lawyer, worked for some time as a corporate lawyer and Republican Senator John Cornyn. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as a principal at Mithril Capital, a company founded by Peter Thiel.

Published in 2016 and 2017, Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, was listed as a New York Times Best Seller. Vance joined Revolution LLC in 2017, where he expanded the “Rise of the Rest” initiative to include investments in underserved areas outside of New York City and Silicon Valley.

He was on the advisory boards of American Moment, a network and training group for young conservatives, and the super PAC WithHonor Fund. Together with Chris Buskirk, he co-founded Rockbridge Network in 2019 and venture capital firm Narya Capital, which raised $93 million in 2020.

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JD Vance: Service in the Military

Vance left the Army in 2007 and enrolled at Ohio State University to study philosophy and political science. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 2009, he moved on to Yale Law School. Professor Amy Chua inspired Vance to write his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

From 2010 to 2011, he wrote for David Frum’s “FrumForum” website under the name J.D. Hamel. Despite Hillbilly Allegy’s claim that Vance adopted his grandparents’ last name after his marriage in 2014, the name change occurred in 2013, when he received his Juris Doctor degree.

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