Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, announced on Sunday the birth of their fourth child—a boy.
Vance said their baby, Alec Neel Vance, was born on the morning of July 19 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland. The couple have three other children: Ewan, 9; Vivek, 6; and Mirabel, 4.
“Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother,” the vice president said in a statement posted on X.
The couple also thanked the doctors and medical staff at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the White House Medical Unit for the care they provided.
The White House later reposted his statement on social media, celebrating the couple’s newborn son.
“Congratulations to Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance on the birth of their fourth child,” the White House said on X.
The birth of Alec Neel makes Vance the first sitting U.S. vice president to welcome a child while in office. The last vice president to do so was Schuyler Colfax, when his wife, Ellen Wade, gave birth to their son, Schuyler Colfax III, in 1870.
Vance’s fourth son is also the latest baby born to senior members of the Trump administration this year. Last month, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and his wife, Katie Miller, welcomed their fourth child, Hawthorne Hayes Miller.
In May, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Viviana. She and her husband, Nicholas Riccio, also have a two-year-old son, Nicolas, who was born while Leavitt was working on Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) congratulated Vance and Usha on their fourth child in a Facebook post on July 19.
“Children are a gift from God, and Cindy and I are celebrating with your family today. We are praying for rest and joy for the Vances in the days ahead,” the senator said.
The pair met while attending Yale Law School and married in 2014. Vance was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio, while Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants, was born in California.
Vance, a former U.S. Marine, had previously expressed alarm about declining birth rates in the United States as he launched his political career in 2021 with a bid for a U.S. Senate seat from Ohio. As vice president, he said in Washington at the 2025 March for Life anti-abortion rally, “I want more babies in the United States of America.”