Vice President JD Vance and his spouse, second woman Usha Vance, on Sunday introduced the delivery of their fourth youngster, the primary born to a sitting vp in additional than 150 years.

Born Sunday, Alec Neel Vance joins older siblings Ewan, 9; Vivek, 6; and Mirabel, 4.

Vance introduced the delivery on social media with a press release signed by him and his spouse.

“We’re excited to announce that our child boy, Alec Neel Vance, was born this morning. Usha and the child are completely satisfied and wholesome, and our youngsters are overjoyed to fulfill their little brother,” the assertion mentioned.

US Second Woman Usha Vance (R) attends the 2026 World Cup Group D soccer match between Turkey and USA on the Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood on June 25, 2026. (Photograph by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP by way of Getty Photos)

They thanked docs and workers on the Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Heart and with the White Home medical crew.

The Republican vp’s rising household is in line with his passionate advocacy for Individuals to have extra kids. He has additionally urged that the 2025 killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was his pal, factored into the choice to have one other youngster.

Vance, a former U.S. Marine, repeatedly expressed alarm about declining delivery charges in America as he launched his political profession in 2021 with a bid for a U.S. Senate seat from Ohio. As vp, he mentioned in Washington on the 2025 March for Life anti-abortion rally, “I would like extra infants in the USA of America.”

The vp, who’s 41, has been accompanied on abroad journeys by Usha Vance, 40, and their kids, with the children usually pajama-clad as they board Air Power Two for the in a single day flights.

Usha Vance, the daughter of immigrants from India, had already been the topic of some public fascination due to her husband. Her being pregnant, which was introduced in January, amplified that highlight since it’s uncommon for occupants of the USA’ highest public workplaces so as to add to their households whereas serving.

FILE – Second woman Usha Vance arrives participates at an arrival ceremony on the South Garden of the White Home, April 28, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

The final time a sitting vp grew to become a brand new father was within the 1800s.

Schuyler Colfax and his second spouse, Ellen Wade, had a son, Schuyler Colfax III, in 1870 when Colfax was serving as vp, in line with the White Home Historic Affiliation. Many years earlier than that, John C. Calhoun and his spouse, Floride Bonneau, had a son, William, in 1829 when Calhoun was vp, the affiliation mentioned.

The latest addition to Vance’s household was a part of a current mini child increase amongst high members of President Donald Trump’s administration. White Home deputy chief of workers Stephen Miller’s spouse, Katie Miller, lately gave delivery to the couple’s fourth youngster, and White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt had her second youngster together with her husband, Nicholas Riccio, in Could.

Usha Vance lately got here beneath scrutiny after The New York Occasions’ vogue critic referred to as consideration to the stomach-hugging, coral maternity gown she wore for a Father’s Day episode of “Storytime with the Second Woman,” a video podcast she launched in the course of the being pregnant.

The Occasions wrote that the eye that Vance, Miller and Leavitt had placed on their pregnancies supplied “a picture of idealized womanhood that provides literal form to the pronatalist motion,” which inspires {couples} to have as many kids as potential to counter declining delivery charges.

The second woman responded on social media, writing, “Now that we all know the political significance of my $8.75 coral maternity gown from Previous Navy, can’t wait to listen to what the New York Occasions has to say about my elastic-waistband pants and compression socks! Within the meantime, get pleasure from my being pregnant vogue (or lack thereof) and story together with your youngsters on Storytime with the Second Woman.” She later shared the receipt for the gown, and her husband applauded her frugality.

“She purchased a $50 gown for $8.75. America: meet your subsequent director of the federal finances!” the vp wrote on social media.

JD Vance has mentioned it was Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, telling them that she wished she’d had greater than two kids together with her husband earlier than he was assassinated final September in Utah that led him and the second woman to determine to develop their household. Usha Vance, a former legal professional who as soon as clerked for Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts, concurred — partly.

“It was very highly effective, what (Erika) mentioned about her circle of relatives, and positively very transferring to each of us. I feel I had already began to open my thoughts to the chance,” Usha Vance mentioned throughout a joint interview together with her husband for “CBS Sunday Morning” that aired in June. “I wouldn’t say that this was, for me in any manner, the decisive issue. But it surely got here in the course of a dialog that we had been already having.”