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James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; [b] August 2, 1984) is an American politician, attorney, author, and Marine Corps veteran who is the vice president-elect of the United States under President-elect Donald Trump. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate from 2023 to 2025.
A 2017 Brookings Institution report noted that "J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy became a national bestseller for its raw, emotional portrait of growing up in and eventually out of a poor rural community riddled by drug addiction and instability." Vance's account anecdotally confirmed the report's conclusion that family stability is essential to ...
Judith Ann (J. A.) Jance (born October 27, 1944) is an American author of mystery novels. She writes three series of novels, centering on retired Seattle Police Department Detective J. P. Beaumont, Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady, and former Los Angeles news anchor turned mystery solver Ali Reynolds.
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Hillbilly Elegy is a 2020 American drama film directed by Ron Howard from a screenplay by Vanessa Taylor, based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by (now U.S. vice president-elect) JD Vance.
Vance's maternal grandfather, L. M. (Ludwig Mathias) Hoefler, was a successful lawyer in San Francisco. [9] Vance grew up in the family's large house in San Francisco on Filbert Street. When Vance's father left the family to live on his ranch in Mexico, the family's house in San Francisco was rented out to the father's sister. [9]
Vance speaking at the 2024 People's Convention. During his time in the U.S. Senate, JD Vance has been described as national conservative, [1] [2] right-wing populist, [1] [3] and an ideological successor to paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan. [4] Vance describes himself, and has been described by others, as a member of the postliberal right.
Such is the case for J.D. Vance, Donald Trump’s recently announced vice-presidential running mate. The Ohio Republican was first elected to the Senate in 2022 after defeating Democratic Rep. Tim ...