J.D. Vance

James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician 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.[1][2][3]

Born in Middletown, Ohio, Vance served in the Marine Corps and attended Ohio State University, graduating in 2009. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2013.[4] He came to prominence with his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which describes his upbringing in the Rust Belt, poverty, drug addiction, and Appalachian culture. It became a New York Times bestseller and was later made into a film. It attracted significant press attention during the 2016 United States presidential election.[5] Vance defeated Democratic nominee Tim Ryan in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio. Initially opposed to his candidacy in the 2016 election, he has become a strong supporter of Donald Trump. In July 2024, Trump selected Vance as his running mate in the 2024 presidential election, and he was officially nominated at the Republican National Convention on July 15.

During his time in the Senate, Vance has been described as a neoreactionary,[6] national conservative,[7] and a right-wing populist,[7] and an ideological successor to paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan.[8] He has cited Curtis Yarvin and Patrick Deneen as leading political influences.[8][9] Vance has been considered a maverick for his willingness to break from Republican orthodoxy and supports raising the minimum wage, furthering unionization, a robust and interventionist antitrust policy, and has opposed most foreign policy interventions, including continued American military aid to Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion.[10][11][12]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance