JD Vance says wife Usha and son ‘happy and healthy’ after birth of fourth child

US Vice President JD Vance announced the birth of his fourth child, a boy, with his wife, Usha Vance.

Alec Neel Vance was born Sunday morning, the vice president said in a statement on social media.

“Usha and the baby are happy and healthy, and our children are very happy to meet their little brother,” he added, thanking military doctors and staff at Walter Reed Medical Center for their care.

This is the first time a child has been born to a vice president who has been in office for more than 150 years, according to the Associated Press. President Donald Trump welcomed the news, writing in a post: “Congratulations! A perfect baby boy for the wonderful Vance family.”

The couple have three other children: Ewan, 9, Vivek, 6, and four-year-old Mirabel.

Usha Vance (née Chilukuri) was born and raised in San Diego, California, to a mechanical engineer father and a molecular biologist mother who moved to the United States from Andhra Pradesh, India.

She met J.D. Vance in 2010, when, as a student at Yale Law School, they participated in a discussion group on the topic of “social decline in white America.”