Former Vice President Dick Cheney died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said in a statement announcing his death on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful people to hold the office, has died, his family says. He was 84.

Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful and controversial Republican vice presidents in U.S. history—and the chief architect of the Iraq War—has died at the age of 84, leaving behind a small but impressive real estate portfolio worth close to $20 million.

Former US President George W Bush has led tributes to Dick Cheney, saying his death is "a loss to the nation and a sorrow to his friends".

Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family.

A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an architect of policies in an era of war and economic change.

In 2018, Cheney once again became the butt of national ridicule after comedian and Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen, in disguise as an Israeli counterterrorism expert, got him to autograph a makeshift “waterboard kit” without much hesitation.