Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84 of complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family announced in a statement obtained by ABC News Tuesday (November 4) morning.
“Richard B. Cheney, the 46th Vice President of the United States, died last night, November 3, 2025,” the Cheney family said. “He was 84 years old. His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed. The former Vice President died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.”
Cheney’s political career in Washington spanned nearly four decades, becoming the youngest White House chief of staff during former President Gerald Ford‘s administration; representing Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives during former President Ronald Reagan‘s administration; serving as secretary of defense under former President George H.W. Bush‘s administration; and later serving as a two-term vice president in former President George W. Bush‘s administration. The former Halliburton CEO also first took charge on September 11, 2001, as Bush was out of Washington at the time of the initial terrorist attacks.
“When the president came on the line, I told him that the Pentagon had been hit and urged him to stay away from Washington,” Cheney wrote in his memoir, In My Time, via ABC News “The city was under attack, and the White House was a target. I understood that he didn’t want to appear to be on the run, but he shouldn’t be here until we knew more about what was going on.”
Cheney is also credited as the mastermind behind the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq during his vice presidency.
“His power is unparalleled in the history of the republic, frankly, for that position,” said John Hulsman, a research fellow at the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, via ABC‘s Nightline in 2005.
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