Overview
- His family said he died on Nov. 3 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, with his wife Lynne and daughters, Liz and Mary, at his side.
- Cheney served as the 46th vice president under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 after earlier posts as Gerald Ford’s White House chief of staff, Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative, and defense secretary under George H. W. Bush.
- He was a central architect of the post‑9/11 “War on Terror,” an early advocate of the 2003 Iraq invasion, and a proponent of expanded executive authority, surveillance and interrogation policies.
- He lived for decades with cardiovascular disease, surviving multiple heart attacks and receiving a heart transplant in 2012.
- In later years he broke with much of his party, publicly denouncing Donald Trump and endorsing Kamala Harris in 2024, a stance that reframed assessments of his legacy.