Current Position: US Senator since 2023
Affiliation: Republican
Former Positions: Venture Capital since 2017; Author, Hillbilly Elegy
Candidate: US Vice President in 2024

After working at a corporate law firm, Vance moved to San Francisco to work in the tech industry. He served as a principal at Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm, Mithril Capital.

n 2016, Harper published Vance’s book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. In 2017, Vance joined Revolution LLC, an investment firm founded by AOL cofounder Steve Case, as an investment partner, where he was tasked with expanding the “Rise of the Rest” initiative, which focuses on growing investments in under-served regions outside the Silicon Valley and New York City tech bubbles.

In 2019, Vance co-founded Narya Capital in Cincinnati, with financial backing from Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen. In 2020, he raised $93 million for the firm.

Two-term Republican Rob Portman was re-elected in 2016 with 58% of the vote. On January 25, 2021, he announced that he would not be running for re-election.

Venture capitalist and author J. D. Vance was nominated in a crowded and competitive Republican primary, defeating USMCR veteran and former Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel, state senator Matt Dolan, investment banker Mike Gibbons, and former Ohio Republican Party chair Jane Timken, among others. Vance was endorsed by former President Donald Trump in the primary.

U.S. Representative and 2020 presidential candidate Tim Ryan is the Democratic nominee.

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Current Position: US Representative of OH 13th District since 2013
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2023 US Senator
Former Position: State Senator from 2001 – 2002

Other Positions:  
Chair, Legislative Branch Subcommittee – House Appropriations Committee
Vice Chair, Defense Subcommittee

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