Dick Cheney, America’s 46th vice president, who served alongside Republican President George W. Bush for two terms between 2001 and 2009, has passed away at the age of 84.

“His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and Mary, and other family members were with him as he passed,” reads the family statement announcing the news.

“The former vice president di*d due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.”

Cheney was a chief architect and central figure of the 2003 “war on terror,” and played a leading role in taking the country into the Iraq War.

In his final years, the conservative figure became largely ostracized from the Republican party over his criticism of President Donald Trump, whom he labeled a “coward.”

Cheney cast his final vote in a preside

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