J.D. Vance

American · b. 1984

J.D. Vance grew up in a working-class Ohio family with Appalachian roots, served in the Marines, and graduated from Yale Law School before turning his story into Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 memoir that became a lightning rod in debates about America's white working class. A venture capitalist turned politician, he was later elected to the U.S. Senate.