Nine years later, he's preparing to be sworn in as the 50th vice president of the United States. "Never in my wildest imagination would I have believed that I could be standing here tonight," Vance told a packed arena when he accepted the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last year.

Vice President-elect JD Vance of Cincinnati, a former Marine, will live on the grounds of a Naval observatory in Washington, D.C. See it on the map.