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Second lady Usha Vance is making history yet again. Find out why.

 



Second lady Usha Vance announced on Tuesday, Jan. 20, that she is expecting her fourth child with her husband, Vice President JD Vance.

The second family announced the upcoming addition in a statement posted to X, "Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are looking forward to welcoming him in July."

The Vance family currently has three children: eight-year-old Ewan, five-year-old Vivek, and three-year-old Mirabel. The couple is known to keep their children out of the public eye.

Here's what to know about pregnancies in the first and second families.

No. A second lady has not been pregnant while holding the office before Vance's announcement, according to People magazine.

The last sitting first lady to be pregnant was Jacqueline Kennedy.

In early 1963, the first lady to President John F. Kennedy became pregnant and would give birth to Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on Aug. 7, 1963 in an emergency C-section at Otis Air Force Base Hospital, according to Vanity Fair. The child died two days later. President Kennedy would be assassinated in November.

The only time a child was born in the White House occurred on Sept. 9, 1893, when Frances Cleveland gave birth to Esther Cleveland. The wife of Grover Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, would also give birth to Marion Cleveland in 1895, marking the second birth during her second tenure as first lady.

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