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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 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 therefore kept his nickname, JD. [6] [7] [8] Vance has written that his childhood was marked by poverty and abuse, and that his mother struggled with drug addiction. [9] He and his sister, Lindsey, were raised primarily by their maternal grandparents, James and Bonnie Vance (née Blanton), whom they called "Papaw" and "Mamaw". [10]
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.
In a Kentucky Democratic Party fundraising email this week, state Sen. Cassie Chambers Armstrong, a Democrat who grew up in Appalachian Kentucky but now lives in Louisville, said Vance had made a ...
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 ...
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."
Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance (born January 6, 1986) [2] is an American lawyer who has been the second lady of the United States since January 20, 2025, being married to Vice President JD Vance. She is the first Indian American and Hindu American in this role. A former trial lawyer, she has also worked with justices of the Supreme Court of the ...