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In 2020, Vance's Memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was adapted into a Netflix movie starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close. Parts of the movie were filmed in Vance's hometown. Parts of the movie were filmed in ...
Vance is the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history, as well as the first Millennial to hold the office. Vance has been characterized as a national conservative and right-wing populist, and he describes himself as a member of the postliberal right. His political positions include opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and gun control.
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the newly announced running mate to former President Donald Trump, takes the floor on the first day of the Republican National Convention, at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee ...
Trump, promising to bring back coal jobs and appoint judges who would do away with a national right to abortion, won the county over Hillary Clinton by a margin of more than 2 to 1 in 2016. He ...
Vance's mother's parents, Bonnie Blanton and Jim Vance Sr., whom he called Mamaw and Papaw, were from Jackson, Kentucky, a city of around 2,100 people in the Appalachian region.
Vance describes his upbringing and family background while growing up in Middletown, Ohio, where his mother and her family had moved after World War II from Breathitt County, Kentucky. Vance states that their Appalachian culture valued traits such as loyalty and love of country despite family violence and verbal abuse. Vance recounts his ...
Vance grew up in Jackson, Kentucky and Middletown, Ohio. He described a childhood consumed by poverty and abuse in his best-selling 2016 memoir , "Hillbilly Elegy."
Terra Vance, a distant cousin of Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, watches the debate at her brother and sister-in-law's house in Logan County, W.Va. (Roger May / For The Times)