cJD Vance’s journey to the White House is quite an astounding one. The 40-year-old, from Middletown, Ohio, shot to relative stardom when he released his memoir Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis in 2016. Following a career in the military and a short stint as a venture capitalist, he is now the Vice President of the United States. However, though Vance has had a successful political career thus far, his year began with some health issues.