Who is Dick Cheney | Former Republican Vice President Richard Cheney

Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, making him President of the United States Senate as well.

Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska but soon relocated to Casper, Wyoming where he grew up. He began his political career as an intern for Congressman William A. Steiger, eventually working his way into the White House during the Ford administration where he served as White House Chief of Staff. In 1978, Cheney was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming; he was reelected five times, eventually becoming House Minority Whip. Cheney was selected to be the Secretary of Defense during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, a position he held for much of Bush's term. In it, Cheney oversaw the 1991 Operation Desert Storm, among others.

Cheney joined the presidential campaign for George W. Bush in 2000 and was selected to be Bush's running mate. Under Vice President Cheney, the office of the vice presidency has grown in size, as he remains a very public and controversial figure. Cheney continues to assert that the Iraq War and War on Terror must be won by the United States, and his confrontational manner has gained much approval and backlash. In the private sector, he is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Company.

Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Richard Herbert Cheney and Marjorie Lorraine Dickey. He attended Calvert Elementary School before his family moved to Casper, Wyoming, where he attended Natrona County High School. His father was a soil conservation agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his mother was a softball star in the 1930s; Cheney has a brother and a sister as well. He attended Yale University but, as he himself stated, "I flunked out," and later attended the University of Wyoming where he earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in political science. He subsequently started, but did not finish, doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In November 1962, at the age of 21, Cheney was convicted of driving while intoxicated (DWI). Cheney discussed this incident in a May 7, 2001, interview in The New Yorker. Cheney said that he found himself, "working, building power lines, having been in a couple of scrapes with the law." He was arrested for DWI again the following year. He said that the arrests made him, "think about where I was and where I was headed. I was headed down a bad road if I continued on that course."

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