US Vice President JD Vance and his wife have announced the birth of their fourth child Story

JD and Usha Vance welcome a son, the first child born to a vice president in more than 150 years.

The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance and his wife, Usha, have announced the birth of their fourth child.

In a statement, Vance and his wife said their son was born Sunday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

“We are delighted to announce that our son, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning,” she said.

“Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our children are excited to meet their little brother,” it added.

Vance, a native of Ohio, and Usha, the daughter of immigrants from India, met while at Yale Law School, where they graduated in 2013.

Their first child, Ewan, was born in 2017, followed by another son, Vivek, in 2020. The couple’s daughter, Mirabel, was born in 2021.

Alec Neel Vance is the first son born to a vice president in over 150 years.

The last time a vice president became a new father was in the 1800s.

Schuyler Colfax and his second wife, Ellen Wade, had a son, Schuyler Colfax III, in 1870, while Colfax was serving as vice president, according to the White House Historical Association.

Vance, a former US Navy SEAL, is a strong advocate for Americans to have more children. He repeatedly spoke about the decline in the number of people born in the US when he launched his political career in 2021 and asked for a seat in the US Senate from Ohio.

As vice president, he said in Washington at a rally against abortion in the 2025 March for Life, “I want more children in the United States of America.”

The newest addition to the Vance family was part of the latest baby among the top members of President Donald Trump.

White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller’s wife, Katie, recently gave birth to the couple’s fourth child, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had her second child with her husband, Nicholas Riccio, in May.