A White House veteran and central figure in the ‘War on Terror’published at 11:42 GMT
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Dick Cheney was vice president to Republican President George W Bush between 2001 and 2009.
He also served as secretary
of defense under George Bush Snr, between 1989 and 1993.
Before that,
Cheney acted as Gerald Ford’s White House chief of staff in the 1970s, before
spending a decade in the House of Representatives.
A former businessman,
Cheney was chairman of defence firm Halliburton, and in his personal life was
an avid hunter – having infamously shot a friend accidentally while hunting.
He most recently stirred
political controversy when he threw his support behind Democratic presidential candidate
Kamala Harris in the 2024 US election.
Cheney was most prominently
known as a central figure in the George W Bush’s “war on terror” following he September
11 attacks in 2001, and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq.
