• J.D. Vance formally accepted the US Republican Vice-Presidential nomination and made his debut at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

• Former US President Donald Trump and his running mate Vance will challenge President Biden and his Vice-President Kamala Harris from the Democratic Party in the November 5 Presidential election. 

• James David Vance, 39, praised former President Trump and promised to fight for working-class Americans cast aside and forgotten by the Democrats.

• Introducing himself to millions of Americans, the Ohio Senator channelled his humble roots in the Midwest.

Vance’s Indian connection

• Vance was born on August 2, 1984 in Middletown, Ohio

• In the speech, he charted his journey from a difficult childhood in small-town Ohio to the US Marines, Yale Law School, and finally the US Senate.

• He wrote a memoir titled ‘Hillbilly Elegy’, which was turned into a movie. 

• Usha Chilukuri Vance, 38, made her debut on the US national political stage when she introduced her husband, J.D. Vance at the Republican National Convention

• A Yale law graduate and a trial lawyer, Usha, 38, is the daughter of Indian immigrants.

• The parents of Usha Vance moved to the US in the late 1970s and now teach engineering and molecular biology in San Diego. 

• While Usha Vance studied at Yale and Cambridge, her father and grandfather both taught or studied at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

• The family is originally from a village called Vadduru village in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh and later moved to Chennai.

• Usha Vance was a law clerk to US Chief Justice John Roberts and later became an attorney at US law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. She resigned after J.D. Vance was named as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate.

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