Ex-US vice president Dick Cheney dies at 84

Former United States Vice President Dick Cheney has been confirmed dead at the age of 84.

Cheney, a driving force behind the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, was considered by presidential historians as one of the most powerful vice presidents in U.S. history.

His family, in a statement on Tuesday, announced that he died on Monday, November 3, 2025, from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.

The Republican – a former Wyoming congressman and secretary of defense – was already a major Washington player when then-Texas governor George W. Bush chose him to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential race that Bush went on to win.

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As vice president from 2001 to 2009, Cheney fought vigorously for an expansion of the power of the presidency, having felt that it had been eroding since the Watergate scandal that drove his one-time boss Richard Nixon from office.

He also expanded the clout of the vice president’s office by putting together a national security team that often served as a power center of its own within the administration.

Cheney was a strong advocate for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was among the most outspoken of Bush administration officials warning of the danger from Iraq’s alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were found.

Cheney was troubled much of his life by heart problems, suffering the first of a number of heart attacks at age 37. He had a heart transplant in 2012.

The Star