Vice President JD and Second Lady Usha Vance welcome baby boy, first child born to sitting US VP in more than 150 years

Washington– Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Second Lady Osha Vance, announced Sunday the birth of their fourth child, the first born to a sitting vice president in more than 150 years.

Alec Neil Vance was born on Sunday, joining older siblings Ewan, 9; Vivek, 6; And Mirabelle, 4.

Vance announced his birth on social media with a statement signed by him and his wife.

“We are thrilled to announce that our baby boy, Alec Neil Vance, was born this morning. Osha and baby are happy and healthy, and our children are so happy to meet their little brother,” the statement read.

They thanked the doctors and staff at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the White House medical team.

The Republican vice president’s growing family aligns with his passionate call for Americans to have more children. He also noted that the 2025 murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was his friend, factored into the decision to have another child.

Vance, a former US Marine, repeatedly expressed concern about America’s declining birth rates when he began his political career in 2021 with a bid for a US Senate seat from Ohio. As Vice President, he said in Washington at the 2025 Anti-Abortion March, “I want more babies in the United States of America.”

The vice president, 41, has been accompanied on foreign trips by Osha Vance, 40, and their children, and the children often wear their pajamas as they board Air Force One for overnight flights.

Usha Vance, the daughter of immigrants from India, was already the subject of some public fascination because of her husband. Her pregnancy, announced in January, has thrust her into the spotlight because it is rare for holders of the highest public offices in the United States to add families while serving.

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. Decades earlier, John C. Calhoun and his wife, Florid Buono, had a son named William in 1829 when Calhoun was vice president, the society said.

The newest addition to the Vance family was part of a recent mini-baby boom among senior members of President Donald Trump’s administration. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, recently gave birth to the couple’s fourth child, and White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt gave birth to her second child with her husband, Nicholas Riccio, in May.

Osha Vance recently came under scrutiny after the New York Times fashion critic called attention to the belly-hugging coral maternity dress she wore in the Father’s Day episode of “Storytime with the Second Lady,” a video she released while pregnant.

The Times wrote that the attention Vance, Miller, and Levitt paid to their pregnancies presented “an image of ideal femininity that gives literal form to the prenatal movement,” which encourages couples to have as many children as possible to counter declining birth rates.

The Second Lady responded on social media, saying, “Now that we know the political significance of the $8.75 coral maternity dress I bought from Old Navy, I can’t wait to hear what the New York Times has to say about my elastic-waisted pants and compression stockings! In the meantime, enjoy your maternity fashion (or lack thereof) and a good storytime with your kids on Storytime with the Second Lady.” She later shared the receipt for the dress, and her husband praised her frugality.

“She bought a $50 dress for $8.75. America: Meet the next federal budget director!” the vice president wrote on social media.

J.D. Vance said it was Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, who told them she wished she had more than two children with her husband before he was assassinated last September in Utah, who prompted him and the second lady to decide to grow their family. Osha Vance, a former lawyer who clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed in part.

“What (Erica) said about her family was very poignant, and certainly very poignant for both of us,” Osha Vance said during a joint interview with her husband on “CBS Sunday Morning” that aired in June. “I think I’m really starting to open my mind to that possibility.” “I wouldn’t say that was the deciding factor for me in any way. But it came in the middle of a conversation we were actually having.”