The biography and net worth of J. D. Vance, the vice-presidential candidate chosen by Donald Trump for the 2024 US elections.
Who is J. D. Vance? Many people, even in the US, ask this question after Donald Trump chose this forty-year-old Republican senator from Ohio as his vice-presidential candidate in the 2024 US elections.
Until 2016 Vance was a worker like many others, then rising to prominence after the publication of the book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. Since then his life has changed, becoming almost a symbol in the representation of the crisis of the US Rust Belt, the territory between the Great Lakes and the Appalachian mountains, once the heart of American industry and now for years in great decline and decadence.
When he approached the Republican Party again in 2016 - and was then elected senator in 2022 - Vance defined himself as a "never Trump", then changing his position over time to become a loyalist of the former president.
“I’m sorry I was wrong about that man -, Vance said of Trump in 2021 -. I think he’s been a good president, I think he’s made a lot of good decisions for the people, and I think he’s gotten a lot of criticism. He is the best president of my life”.
A transformation that has caused much discussion in the United States, especially now that the young senator, leader of the populist-neo-reactionary wing of the GOP who considers the establishment at the helm of the USA as a sort of "regime" managed by an elite that must be dismantled, will play a key role in the US elections 2024.
Let’s see then the biography of J. D. Vance, also taking a look at his salary and the net worth of Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate in the presidential elections on November 5th.
Who is J. D. Vance
Name: James David Vance, born James Donald Bowman
Date of birth: 2 August 1984
Place: Middletown (Ohio), United States
Family: his parents divorced when he was still very young, and he was raised by his grandparents and then took on their surname out of gratitude
Private life: married to Usha Vance, the couple has three children
Education: degree in Political Science and Law
Party: Republican
Role: Senator from Ohio
Curiosity: in the past he was a Marine and took part in the war in Iraq
J. D. Vance Net Worth and Salary
The book with which J.D. Vance Became Famous is a sort of autobiography, a biting denunciation of the decline of post-industrial America which for him was largely due to the social pathologies of the white working class.
In 2019 Vance founded his venture capital company, Narya, based in Ohio: the name comes from a fictional object from JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books.
In November 2022 he was elected to the US Senate from Ohio with the help of over $10 million in donations from Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal.
He officially took office as Senator in January 2023 and has since been earning a congressman salary of $174,000 a year.
If J.D. Should Vance be elected vice president of the United States, he would receive a salary of $215,548 per year for holding such office.
As for his net worth , sifting through various US sites, we find conflicting and often not very credible figures. Some sources estimate his net worth at $5 million, while others present a much larger sum, including some investments in cryptocurrencies that would have generated him handsome earnings.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2024-07-16 16:22:09. Original title: J. D. Vance, chi è e quanti soldi ha il candidato vicepresidente di Trump
