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Bill Clinton did not serve in Vietnam and took steps in 1968–69 to avoid induction that critics called "draft dodging," but reporters and government reviews since the 1990s have concluded he did not c...
J.D. Vance completed a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at Yale Law School in 2013, not merely a short graduate certificate; multiple independent biographical and news sources record that he graduated from ...
Multiple independent and contemporaneous reports state that J.D. Vance attended Yale Law School from 2010 to 2013 and received a Juris Doctor in May 2013; Yale Daily News, Business Insider, BestColleg...
JD Vance left the Marines in 2007, used the G.I. Bill to enroll at Ohio State University where he graduated summa cum laude in 2009, then entered Yale Law School in 2010 and earned a J.D. in 2013; aft...
Yes — the man now known as Vice President JD Vance has legally and publicly used several different names over his life, moving from his birth name through at least two family surnames and altering his...
There are at least two prominent figures named Dave (or David) Van Zandt in current reporting: David E. Van Zandt, an attorney, legal scholar and long‑time academic leader who served as dean of Northw...
J.D. Vance did become a licensed attorney: he earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2013 and passed the Kentucky bar exam that July, with records showing he was sworn in and admitted to practice in Oc...
Multiple reputable sources report that J.D. Vance graduated from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) or “law degree” in 2013; contemporaneous profiles and alumnus notes describe him as Yale Law...
JD Vance earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2013 and did practice law briefly — serving two clerkships and working at a large corporate law firm — before shifting into venture capital and a...
JD Vance has legally and stylistically changed his name multiple times over his life: born James Donald Bowman, he became James David Hamel after adoption, and later legally took his maternal grandpar...
Records in public reporting and institutional profiles say J.D. Vance graduated Middletown High School in 2003, earned a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University (reported as 2009 in some local so...
J.D. Vance did not attend Harvard; he earned his undergraduate degree at Ohio State University and a law degree from Yale Law School . As a senator and now vice president, Vance has publicly attacked ...
Public reporting and institutional coverage consistently state that J.D. Vance earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School (class of 2013); multiple news outlets and university publications describe hi...
Public records and contemporaneous reporting consistently identify J.D. Vance as a Yale Law School student from fall 2010 and a Juris Doctor recipient in May 2013; Yale’s Registrar and multiple news o...
Available reporting shows J.D. Vance left the Marines in 2007, used the G.I. Bill to attend Ohio State (BA, 2009), then enrolled at Yale Law School in 2010 and graduated with a JD in 2013; after law s...
JD Vance served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps (2003–2007), used the Post‑9/11 GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon benefits to fund college, graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State in 2009, then enrolled...
JD Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps immediately after high school and served four years, including a deployment to Iraq; multiple biographical accounts and Vance’s own writings attribute that e...
J.D. Vance earned his Bachelor of Arts from The Ohio State University in 2009 and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2013 . Multiple reputable outlets — including Britannica, Business Insider an...
Yale treats student education records as protected under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which generally prohibits the university from disclosing personally identifiable...
Vice President J.D. Vance has publicly downplayed controversies surrounding his past conduct and the behavior of young Republicans while pushing back against what he calls excessive outrage, and he ha...