United States Vice President

United States Vice President

The United States Vice President is second in line to the presidency and president of the Senate. This page follows the office and the person who holds it.

J.D. Vance, United States Vice President

J.D. Vance

50th United States Vice President

Term: January 20, 2025 to January 20, 2029

J.D. Vance was sworn in as the 50th United States Vice President on January 20, 2025. He was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio. After high school he served four years in the Marine Corps, including a tour in Iraq, then earned his degree at The Ohio State University and a law degree at Yale. He wrote the memoir Hillbilly Elegy, worked in law and venture capital, and in 2022 was elected a United States senator from Ohio. He served in the Senate until he took office as vice president. He is married to Usha Vance.

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Articles

Patients Are Spending a Day in the Emergency Room Hallway

+ 0   − 0  ·  0 comments  ·  November 8, 2026

Hospitals are so full that the emergency room has become a waiting room. The Wall Street Journal reported that patients who have already been admitted spend 12 hours, and...

How Elon Musk Blew the Cybertruck

+ 0   − 0  ·  0 comments  ·  November 6, 2026

Elon Musk said on Friday that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027. He said the floor space is needed for the Cybercab, the...

New Hope in the JonBenet Ramsey Case

+ 0   − 0  ·  0 comments  ·  November 6, 2026

JonBenet Ramsey was six years old. She was a little girl in beauty pageants, and she was murdered in Boulder, Colorado, the day after Christmas in 1996. Nearly thirty years...

Kane Is the Leading Name for Tennessee's Next Senator

+ 0   − 0  ·  0 comments  ·  November 6, 2026

Marsha Blackburn won the race for governor of Tennessee on Tuesday. She is giving up her seat in the United States Senate to take the job. The Nashville Scene reports that the...

Elon Musk and the Money He Says He Does Not Care About

+ 0   − 0  ·  0 comments  ·  November 6, 2026

MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’s former wife, has given away more than $26 billion to charities. A great deal of it went to people who have very little. In June, Elon Musk was...

He Spent the Money. They Lost. She Took the Blame.

+ 0   − 0  ·  0 comments  ·  November 6, 2026

Susie Wiles is out as White House chief of staff. President Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller is taking the job, days after Republicans lost control of Congress. The New...

This election was an anti Trump Vote

+ 0   − 0  ·  2 comments  ·  November 6, 2026

A lot of people are saying the Democrats won. Vice President JD Vance said otherwise about what the vote meant. He said the 2024 Trump voters did not stay home. They showed up,...