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International Business Times UK
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Trisha Kae Andrada

Dick Cheney Dead Due to Complications of Pneumonia and Cardiac and Vascular Disease — What Does That Mean?

Former Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, presenting former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC, the "Defender of the Constitution Award." (Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)

Former United States vice president Dick Cheney, one of the most influential and divisive figures in modern American politics, has died aged 84. His family confirmed he passed away from complications of pneumonia, as well as cardiac and vascular disease.

The family told the media that Cheney died surrounded by his wife of 61 years, Lynne, and their daughters, Liz and Mary. They described him as 'a great and good man' who inspired his family to embrace 'lives of courage, honour, love, kindness and fly fishing'.

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