Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance welcomed their fourth child to the world Sunday morning — marking the first time in over 150 years a child’s been born to a sitting vice president.
Usha gave birth to little Alec Neel, the couple’s third son, at Walter Reed Medical Center in Maryland, the vice president announced in a statement.
“We are excited to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning,” Vance wrote.
“Usha and the baby are happy and healthy and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother,” the vice president said, thanking the staff at Walter Reed for the baby’s safe delivery.
Baby Alec Neel will be joining his three other siblings in the Vance family, including Ewan, 9; Vivek, 6; and Mirabel, 4.
The vice president, 41, and Usha, 40, who have been married since 2014, announced they were expecting in January, a historical occurrence for a second family.
The last time a sitting vice president and second lady welcomed a child was when Ulysses S. Grant’s Vice President Schuyler Colfax Jr. and his wife Ellen had their son Schuyler Colfax III — 156 years ago.
The Vances are the latest in a string of Trump administration higher-ups who’ve welcomed children into their family over the past year.
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, and his wife Katie welcomed their son Hawthorne Hayes in June.
Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, and her husband Nicholas Riccio welcomed her second child, a daughter Vivianna, in early May.
Vance himself has long been an advocate for Americans to have “more babies.”
He’s also argued that more should be done to support families bringing children into the world.
We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we will support adoption and foster care. We will protect women and vulnerable children,” Vance said in his debut speech as vice president.
He and Usha have also said that conversations with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika, who regretted only having two children with the Trump ally, also influenced their decision to have a fourth child.
“I think it really heightened JD’s sense that he’d been talking about this for a while, this sense that there was this possibility of having another kid whom he could love as much as the three that we had,” Usha said.
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