Administration
JD Vance
Vice President of the United States
JD Vance is the 50th Vice President of the United States, sworn in on January 20, 2025. He previously represented Ohio in the Senate from 2023 to 2025 and served four years in the Marine Corps.
Background
Biography
JD Vance was born in 1984 and raised in Middletown, Ohio. After graduating from Middletown High School he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving four years with a tour in Iraq. He then attended The Ohio State University on the GI Bill and went on to Yale Law School. After law school, his White House biography says, he worked as an investor in startups in the Midwest and wrote the memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
Vance was elected to the Senate from Ohio in 2022. Congress.gov lists him as a Republican senator for Ohio in the 118th and 119th Congresses, from 2023 to 2025.
In 2024 Donald Trump chose him as the Republican nominee for vice president. Vance was sworn in for his first term as the 50th vice president on January 20, 2025. Congress.gov lists him as President of the Senate.
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