Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has died, his family revealed Tuesday. He was 84 years old.
Cheney served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under Republican President George W. Bush.
He also served as Defense Secretary under Republican George Bush Snr, between 1989 and 1993.
Vice President Dick Cheney delivers a speech at a 2004 Bush Cheney fundraising luncheon in New York. (Photo by Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images)
Before that, Cheney served as chief of staff to Gerald Ford at the White House in the 1970s, after spending a decade in the House of Representatives.
A statement released by the family announces the death of Dick Cheney:
Richard B. Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, died last night, November 3, 2025. He was 84 years old.
His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him at his passing.
The former vice president died of pneumonia and heart and vascular disease.
For decades, Dick Cheney served our country, including serving as White House Chief of Staff, Congressman from Wyoming, Secretary of Defense, and Vice President of the United States.
Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country and live a life of courage, honor, love, kindness and fly fishing.
We are grateful beyond measure for all that Dick Cheney has done for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.
Cheney served as the United States Representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district from 1979 to 1989, and as the 17th United States Secretary of Defense in the administration of President George H. W. Bush.
CNN notes that Cheney was plagued by cardiovascular disease for most of her adult life, surviving a series of heart attacks.
File/Former Vice President Dick Cheney makes a joke about what it takes to be a great vice president while chatting with moderator Hugh Hewitt at the Event Center at Colorado Christian on December 7, 2015 in Lakewood, Colorado. (Brent Lewis/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
Despite his health problems, he continued to live a full and vigorous life and lived many years in retirement after a heart transplant in 2012, which he praised in a 2014 interview as “the gift of life itself”.
Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the son of a longtime Department of Agriculture employee. Senior class president and football co-captain at Casper, he went to Yale on a full scholarship for one year but left with failing grades.
He returned to Wyoming, eventually enrolled at the University of Wyoming, and resumed a relationship with his high school sweetheart, Lynne Anne Vincent, whom he married in 1964.
He is survived by his wife, Liz, and a second daughter, Mary.
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