Dick Cheney, vice president during the George W. Bush presidency and secretary of defense for George H. W. Bush before that, died November 3 at the age of 84, due to complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease. Though Cheney was not a Texan, his ties to the state included heading then-Houston-based global oil field services company Halliburton in the late nineties, during which time he called Dallas home.

In early 2006, while on a quail-hunting trip in South Texas, Cheney inadvertently shot Harry Whittington with a 28-gauge shotgun, nonfatally peppering the 78-year-old Austin attorney’s face, neck, and chest with lead pellets. The incident made headlines across the world and proved infamous enough to earn the vice president a spot on the cover of the January 2007 issue o

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