1JD Vance spent more than two decades as James David “J.D.” Hamel. It’s the name by which he graduated from Middletown High School, served in Iraq as a U.S. Marine officially, Cpl. James D. Hamel. The rank is usually the lowest ranking non-commissioned officer see Corporal Maxwell Klinger, a soldier who tried getting (kicked out) from the army by cross-dressing

3The senator this state from introduced himself to the world in 2016 when he published his bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” under the name J.D. Vance

6Over 39 years, Vance’s first, middle and last names have all been altered in one way or another. Vance was introduced as Donald Trump’s running mate, his name has been the source of both curiosity and questions, including why he no longer uses these in JD

7In 1990, the same year he enrolled for kindergarten at Middletown City Schools, his mother renamed him James _____ Hamel

8In April 2013, as he was about to graduate from Yale. It felt right to take the name of the woman who raised him before dying in 2005, as he was putting the struggles of his early ____ behind him and launching into this new transition into…

10The legal name today is James David Vance. JD Vance with no _______

12“Of all the things that I hated about my childhood, nothing compared to the revolving door of father figures. ”So he decided to change his name again, to Vance. The last name of his beloved (in US southern dialect, one's grandmother), especially one's maternal one who raised him.

13People close to Vance say his relationships with the women who raised him are key to understanding his (fundamental way he perceives and interprets his culture, society, and the global scene surrounding him)

14When it comes to the Republican (moral depravity or corruption, wickedness, or moral fault or failing, or habitual and usually trivial defect or shortcoming, or other foible) presidents many names, it’s complicated

15Vance achieved a clean with his new name, just as he was entering his career as a lawyer and author. Besides being the name on a book, it’s the name he used to register for the bar, to marry, to enter the world of venture capital in the Silicon Valley and as he tries to become what he never had. A good ______

17He earned a political science degree at The Ohio State University and blogged his (repetitive engaging negative thoughts that looped continuously in his mind without end or completion) as a 26-year-old student at Yale Law School.

2The Ironic vice president in 2025 was born in Middletown on Aug. 2, 1984 as his middle and last names the same as his french fry slinging biological father, James "Big Mac Mc______ Bowman.

4“A Vice _________ that was in a lot of ways raised by strong women. From grandmother to mom, to aunt, to sister, and everybody played a big role,”

5His parents split up when he was about 6, “around the time I started walking,” he writes. His mother, Beverly, married for the third time. He was (legally taken by another family to be taken care of as their own child) by his new stepfather, Robert Hamel, and his mother renamed him James David Hamel

9“like jay-dot-dee-dot,” he wrote, short for James David. In his book, he explained that this was not the first (Act or Process of Doing Something Again and Again), of his Name. Nor would it be the last

11When his mother erased Donald Bowman from his and her lives, the adoption process also erased the name James Donald Bowman from the public record. The only birth certificate for Vance on file at Ohio’s vital statistics office reads James David Hamel, according to information provided by the ____

16The lack of Fatherhood in the ___ “Certainly I see a lot of the struggles that are going on in the country through the eyes of a single mom, because I was raised in part by a single mom or a grandmother.”