Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died.
“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 as he passed,” a statement obtained by Fox News read. “The former vice president died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.”
Cheney had a long public service career besides serving as vice president under President George W. Bush. “For decades, Dick Cheney served our nation, including as White House chief of staff, Wyoming’s congressman, secretary of defense, and vice president of the United States,” the statement said.
Heritage Foundation Executive Vice President Derrick Morgan issued a statement remembering Cheney. Morgan served as assistant, special counsel, and staff secretary for the vice president and traveled frequently with him as a member of his senior staff.
“Vice President Cheney was a kind man with high expectations and even deeper loyalty to America and its defenders, his family, and his friends. He gave me great opportunities and was devoted to conservative principles and to all those he worked with,” Morgan said.
“Cheney ably championed the Second Amendment, free enterprise, and a strong national defense,” Morgan continued. “He was an experienced and loyal counselor to President Bush and the various American leaders he served. In 2002, [he] helped present Heritage’s highest award, the Clare Boothe Luce Award, to Lady Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. He won that same award himself in 2011. Heritage will remember him with fondness and gratitude. I will miss him, and our nation owes him and his family gratitude for his long career of public service.”
Bush was also among those who memorialized the former vice president. “Laura and I will remember Dick Cheney for the decent, honorable man that he was,” Bush said in a statement referring to the former first lady, Laura Bush. “History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation—a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position he held.”
Cheney was regarded as a particularly memorable vice president in a role that doesn’t always have much to offer the person holding it. It was during the Bush-Cheney administration that the United States began the War on Terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America.
The families’ statement concluded: “Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing. We are grateful beyond measure for all Dick Cheney did for our country. And we are blessed beyond measure to have loved and been loved by this noble giant of a man.”
