Dick Cheney Cause of Death: How did Dick Cheney die? Health details about former U.S. Vice President who survived five heart attacks

Dick Cheney, former Vice President who served father and son presidents -- President George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, has died at age 84. He is survived by his wife Lynne Anne Vincent, by daughter Liz Cheney and by a second daughter, Mary. Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family.

Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, son of a longtime Agriculture Department worker. Senior class president and football co-captain in Casper, he went to Yale on a full scholarship for a year but left with failing grades.

He moved back to Wyoming, eventually enrolled at the University of Wyoming and renewed a relationship with high school sweetheart Lynne Anne Vincent, marrying her in 1964.


A survivor of five heart attacks, Cheney long thought he was living on borrowed time and declared in 2013 he now awoke each morning "with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day,” an odd image for a figure who always seemed to be manning the ramparts.

In the first race for the House, Cheney suffered a mild heart attack, prompting him to crack he was forming a group called "Cardiacs for Cheney." He still managed a decisive victory and went on to win five more terms.

In 1989, Cheney became defense secretary under the first President Bush and led the Pentagon during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War that drove Iraq's troops from Kuwait. Between the two Bush administrations, Cheney led Dallas-based Halliburton Corp., a large engineering and construction company for the oil industry.

Cheney operated much of the time from undisclosed locations in the months after the 2001 attacks, kept apart from Bush to ensure one or the other would survive any follow-up assault on the country's leadership.

With Bush out of town on the fateful day of 9/11, Cheney was a steady presence in the White House, at least until Secret Service agents lifted him off his feet and carried him away, in a scene the vice president later described to comical effect.

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