JD is best known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which received a lot of news during the 2016 presidential race.

Vance is the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in Ohio in 2022 and announced his candidacy on July 1, 2021, to succeed retiring Senator Rob Portman.

In June 2016, he published his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”. The book was a massive hit and remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for two years. The book was also a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Price in 2017. The book is about the Appalachian values of his upbringing and their relation to the social problems of his hometown.

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J. D. Vance’s parents: Meet Bev Vance, Donald Bowman

Vance was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio to parents Donald Bowman and Bev Vance. He also has a sister named Lindsay. Vance’s parents divorced when he was a toddler and he was adopted by his mother’s third husband. Vance and his sister were raised mostly by his grandparents.