J. D. Vance

James David Vance is an American politician, lawyer, author, and Marine veteran who has served since 2023 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he is its nominee for vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election. After graduating from Middletown High School, Vance joined the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent, with six months in Iraq. He then attended Ohio State University, graduating in 2009. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2013. His 2016 bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy got considerable press attention during the 2016 election and was adapted into a feature film by Ron Howard in 2020. In 2021, Vance entered electoral politics as the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, which he won, defeating Democratic nominee Tim Ryan. Initially opposed to Donald Trump's candidacy in the 2016 election, Vance has since become a strong Trump supporter.

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