In Vance’s best-selling memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” he wrote that his late grandmother, whom he called “Mamaw,” helped keep ...

He was grateful for his Mamaw’s steady presence even as she struggled to raise two grandchildren well into her 70s. That boy grew up to be Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance ...

The vice president, amid a national epidemic of substance abuse, touts Beverly Aikins’ recovery from debilitating addiction.

Vice President JD Vance has spoken and written about his mother's addiction struggles. On Monday, he led a White House ...

Vice President JD Vance stood at the head of the table in the Roosevelt Room during one of the most significant moments of ...

(Photo by Justin Merriman) Aikins’s mother, Bonnie Vance, “Mamaw” to JD Vance, was profoundly influential in her grandson’s life and helped raise JD with the help of his older sister ...

As he did in his memoir, Vance credits his grandmother “Mamaw,” with helping him overcome a harrowing childhood. “I had a guardian angel by my side. She was an old woman who could barely ...

Vance's journey from a troubled childhood ... Mom told me that I was now named after Uncle David, Mamaw’s older, pot-smoking brother. This seemed a bit of a stretch even when I was 6.

The audience began chanting for her. Vance talked tonight about how his grandmother, or "mamaw," raised him. "She was an old woman who could barely walk, but she was tough as nails. I called her ...

An instant bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy told the story of Vance’s turbulent childhood with a drug addicted mother and hard-working grandparents (“Mamaw and Papaw”) who were from Appalachia ...

Republicans have reacted positively to the speech delivered by Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance. In a primetime speech, the Ohio senator vowed to fight for working-class Americans that he ...

Vance spoke about his pride in his mother ... noting that his grandmother, "Mamaw," stepped in to fill the gap. "She raised me in part because my own mother struggled with addiction for a ...