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| Order: | 46th Vice President |
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| Term of Office: | January 20, 2001–present |
| Followed: | Al Gore |
| Date of Birth | January 30, 1941 |
| Place of Birth: | Lincoln, Nebraska |
| Wife: | Lynne Cheney |
| Profession: | Businessman |
| Political Party: | Republican |
| President: | George W. Bush |
Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941), widely known as Dick Cheney, is an American politicianA politician is an individual involved in politics, sometimes this may include political scientists. In other settings, a politician is a type of political figure who participates in a government. In Western democracies, the term is generally restricted t and businessman affiliated with the U.S. Republican Party. He is currently serving as the 46th Vice President of the United StatesThe Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who is "a heartbeat from the presidency. As first in the presidential line of succession, the Vice President becomes the new Presi under George W. Bush.
Cheney was born in Lincoln, NebraskaNebraska ( In Detail) (Full size) State nickname: Cornhusker State Other U. States Capital Lincoln Largest City Omaha Governor Mike Johanns Area Total Land Water % water Ranked 16th 200,520 km˛ 199,099 km˛ 1,247 km˛ 0. 6% Population Total ( 2000) Density to Richard H. and Marjorie Cheney (Born Dickey). He grew up in Casper, Wyoming and first met his high school sweetheart and future wife, Lynne Vincent, at the age 14. His father Richard Herbert Cheney worked for the Department of Agriculture as a soil conservation agent.
Cheney excelled both academically and athletically in high school. He was elected the Natrona County High School senior class president, represented the school at Boys State, and played halfback on the football team. [1] [2][3] Beginning the summer after high school graduation in 1959 and during the next six years, Cheney worked on power lines and was a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union.
In 1964, he married his high-school sweetheart Lynne Vincent. Lynne was elected Mustang Queen, the equivalent of most popular girl, and was a state-champion baton twirler. Under president George H. W. Bush, she was Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, from 1986– 1993. She now also calls for abolition of the agency and discontinuance of the National Endowment for the Arts, claiming that both agencies foster cultural corruption. She is now an author and college teacher. [4]
Cheney has two adult daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, and four grandchildren. Elizabeth was born in 1966 and is married with four children. She graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1996 and has worked as an international law attorney, consultant, and now for the State Department's Near East Affairs Bureau . Mary is one of her father's top campaign aides and closest confidantes and lives in Denver, Colorado. Mary's sexual orientation as a lesbian has become a source of increasing public attention for Dick Cheney in light of the recent same-sex marriage debate and his support of a Federal Marriage Amendment which would continue to prevent Mary Cheney from marrying her same-sex partner.
In 1995, Cheney had a non-speaking bit part in the Bruce Willis film , playing a New York City offical.