Overview
- Family spokesman Jeremy Adler said Cheney died Monday night with his wife Lynne, daughters Liz and Mary, and other relatives at his side.
- He served as vice president to George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 after earlier leading the Pentagon under George H. W. Bush.
- He was widely regarded as an unusually powerful vice president who backed expansive surveillance, detention and interrogation measures and pressed for the 2003 Iraq invasion.
- Cheney struggled with heart disease for decades and underwent a heart transplant in 2012.
- In later years he broke with many Republicans by denouncing Donald Trump and stating he would vote for Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024.