For at least part of his upbringing, JD Vance’s parents — Donald Bowman and Beverly Aikins — played formative roles, too. The ...

The only birth certificate for Vance on file at Ohio’s vital statistics office reads James David Hamel, according to ...

One of those kids was little James Hamel, who spent a lot of time living on McKinley Street in Middletown with his mother, Beverly Aikins, and his grandmother Bonnie Vance, whom he affectionately ...

Before J.D. Vance was elected Vice President, he authored a memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, that offered insight into his family and ...

J.D. Vance was primarily raised by his grandparents ... who adopted J.D., renaming him James David Hamel, replacing her ex-husband's first name with her uncle’s name to preserve the “J.D. ...

While Vice President JD Vance was accompanied by his family for the 2025 Presidential Inauguration, his son Vivek Vance couldn’t hide his true feelings about his dad and Donald Trump’s big day.

Vance was born James Donald Bowman to parents Donald Ray Bowman and Beverly Carol Bowman. They divorced when he was a toddler. Vance and his sister, Lindsey, were raised primarily by his maternal ...