JD Vance and Usha Vance welcomed their fourth child, a baby boy. Here's a timeline of their relationship.

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance have been married since 2014.Kevin Lamarque/REUTERSVice President JD Vance, President Donald Trump's second-in-command, is a former Ohio senator.JD Vance met his wife, Usha Vance, while they were both students at Yale Law School.They wed in Christian and Hindu ceremonies in 2014 and welcomed their fourth child on Sunday.When Fox News asked Usha Vance in June 2024 how she felt about her husband, JD Vance, being considered as Donald Trump's running mate, she told host Lawrence Jones that she was "not raring to change anything about our lives right now."But it appears that she came around, holding the Bible at the 2025 inauguration as JD Vance was sworn in as vice president of the United States.JD Vance, the former junior senator from Ohio and bestselling author of memoirs "Hillbilly Elegy" and "Communion," and Usha Vance, a litigator whose résumé includes a Supreme Court clerkship, met as students at Yale Law School and wed in 2014.Since becoming vice president and second lady, the Vances have taken several international trips together, including a visit to the US military's Pituffik Space Base in Greenland in March 2025 and the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in February 2026.In January 2026, the Vances announced they were expecting their fourth child, making Usha Vance the first second lady in US history to be pregnant while in office. Usha Vance gave birth to a boy, Alec Neel Vance, on July 19.Here's a look inside the relationship of the GOP power couple serving as vice president and second lady.Born in Ohio and raised by his grandparents in Kentucky, JD Vance joined the Marines and graduated from Ohio State University.Gaelen Morse/Getty ImagesJD Vance served as a public affairs Marine in Iraq, liaising between service members and members of the press. After his military service, he majored in political science and philosophy at Ohio State University.Usha Vance studied history at Yale and taught American history in Guangzhou as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow.FILE - Usha Vance, wife of Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, listens as he speaks at a campaign event, Aug. 7, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wis.Alex Brandon, File/APUsha Vance grew up in a suburb of San Diego. Her parents are Indian immigrants.Usha Vance told Fox News in June 2025 that her parents' Hindu faith was "one of the things that made them such good parents, that make them very good people."She was a registered Democrat until 2014.She is also conversant in German.The couple met while they were students at Yale Law School.U.S. Senate Republican candidate JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, embrace after casting their ballots in the midterm elections in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., November 08, 2022.Gaelen Morse/ReutersIn law school, Usha Vance served as executive development editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, according to a bio on the website of her former employer, Munger, Tolles & Olson, that has since been removed.She also worked pro bono with the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic, and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project.Usha Vance told NBC News in 2017 that she and JD Vance took all of their classes together and were friends before they started dating. When they were assigned to work on a brief together, Usha Vance said she was impressed by his diligence."I've never seen anybody so starstruck," their law school professor, Amy Chua, said of JD Vance in an interview with NBC News. "It was love at first sight."They wed in 2014 and held both Christian and Hindu ceremonies.CINCINNATI, OH - MAY 3: Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance embraces his wife Usha Vance after winning the primary, at an election night event at Duke Energy Convention Center on May 3, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Vance, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, narrowly won over former state Treasurer Josh Mandel, according to published reports.Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesVance converted to Catholicism in 2019. Usha Vance was raised Hindu.When asked about their interfaith marriage in a June 2025 interview with Fox News, Usha Vance said: "There are a lot of things that we just agree on, I think, especially when it comes to family life, how to raise our kids. So I think the answer really is that we just talk a lot."While speaking at a Turning Point USA event in October 2025, JD Vance said that he hoped his wife would someday convert to Christianity."Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved by what I was moved by in church? Yeah, honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way," he said. "But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn't cause a problem for me."In 2016, JD Vance published his best-selling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," in which he wrote about his relationship with Usha Va

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