Dick Cheney’s Cause of Death at 84 Shared by His Family

Dick Cheney died at the age of 84 on Monday, Nov. 3.

The former vice president’s family shared his cause death was “complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.”

The family added in their statement, “His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed.”

Cheney served as the vice president under former President George W. Bush as well as the White House Chief of Staff, Wyoming’s Congressman and Secretary of Defense.

Throughout his career, Cheney had a series of health struggles, including five heart attacks.

In 1978 he suffered the first of several mild heart attacks, undergoing quadruple-bypass surgery in 1988. And in 2010 he suffered a fifth heart attack, receiving a heart transplant from an anonymous donor two years later.

“Although the former Vice President and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift,” said a statement from Cheney’s office at the time.

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Sharing the news of his death on Tuesday, the Cheney family wrote in their statement, “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.”

On Tuesday morning, Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, shared her condolences to the Cheney family on the Today show.

“When you hear of a politician who passes, there’s tons of coverage about what they are like as a politician, but as a daughter of a politician, as a granddaughter of a politician, I just am thinking of his daughters and who they are missing which is not necessarily a man who casts votes, but rather a man who raised them,” Bush Hager shared.

Bush Hager went on to share her love to Cheney’s daughters, adding, “So I am thinking of Mary and Liz this morning, who I’m going to reach out to as well just to send my love and I know my parents are thinking the very same.”