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JD Vance’s name changed with the adoption — and not just his last name. “When Bob became my legal father, Mom changed my name from James Donald Bowman to James David Hamel,” he wrote in ...
J.D.'s mom, Beverly Vance (b. 1961), now goes by Beverley "Bev" Aikins. When J.D. was six, he was adopted by her third husband, Bob Hamel. When Bob became his legal father, Beverly changed her son ...
Usha Bala Chilukuri [3] [a] was born in 1986 in a suburb of San Diego, California, [6] to Telugu-speaking Indian immigrants. [7] [8] Her father is a mechanical engineer from IIT Madras and a lecturer at San Diego State University, [9] [10] and her mother is a molecular biologist and provost at the University of California, San Diego. [11]
Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio, in 1984, with his biological father's name, Donald Bowman. Vance's middle name was changed to David after his parents divorced.
When Vance was just a toddler, his father walked out on his family. Years later, his parents officially divorced. “Dad gave me up for adoption when I was 6,” the now-senator wrote.
In 2010 and 2011, Vance wrote for David Frum's "FrumForum" website under the name J. D. Hamel. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] He graduated in 2013 with a Juris Doctor degree. [ 19 ] Although Hillbilly Elegy implies that Vance adopted his grandparents' surname of Vance upon his marriage in 2014, [ 25 ] the name change actually occurred in 2013, as he was about ...
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 ...
Gabriel Basso plays J.D. Vance and Owen Asztalos plays a younger version of him. ... His middle name was changed from Donald, his father's name, to David after his parents divorced.