Jan 20, 2025
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- When JD Vance was sworn in at the Capitol on Monday, the former senator made history as the first vice president from Ohio in nearly 100 years. Vance took his oath of office alongside President Donald Trump around noon on Monday during an inauguration ceremony that has been moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda given forecasts of intense cold weather. The last president to be sworn in inside the rotunda was Ronald Reagan in 1985, when daytime temperatures dipped to 7 degrees with a windchill of -25. Follow live updates on Vance's inauguration day below. The 40-year-old is Ohio's first vice president since Charles Dawes, vice president under Calvin Coolidge from 1925 to 1929, and also made history as the first vice presidential candidate from the Buckeye State since 1944. Vance made his mark as a venture capitalist known for authoring the 2016 memoir-turned-Netflix-movie "Hillbilly Elegy," and was propelled to victory in a crowded Ohio Senate primary in 2022 after receiving Trump’s highly coveted endorsement. He went on to become Ohio's junior senator after beating Democratic challenger Tim Ryan to fill the vacancy left by former Republican Sen. Rob Portman. As a senator, the Middletown native touted himself as a defender of Trump's "Make America Great Again" agenda, aiming to reverse the Biden administration's "needless spending" and double down on securing the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump announced Vance's appointment as his running mate in July last year on the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, then went on to win the 2024 White House race by earning 312 electoral votes. Vance resigned from his Senate seat in early January, making way for Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to appoint Lt. Gov. Jon Husted on Friday as his replacement in Congress' upper chamber.
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