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'''Richard B. Cheney''' served as the 46th Vice President of the United States, 2001-2009. He was first elected as a Republican in 2000 along with President [[George W. Bush]]. Cheney was re-elected along with President Bush in 2004. He served as White House Chief of Staff for President Ford, and Secretary of Defense for President George H. W. Bush.  Cheney is best known for his strong conservatism, and his promotion of the powers of the presidency, especially in foreign affairs.

Richard 'Dick' Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.<ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/1</ref> He has both After dropping out of Yale College, he took a BA and an MA in Political Science from the University of Wyoming <ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/2</ref>. He married did graduate work in political science at the University of Wisconsin, where he met [[Lynne Cheney]] in 1964; she has a PhD in literature. They have two daughters; Elizabeth and Mary.

Richard Cheney assumed his first political post as an assistant to Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles in the early 1960s, at the age of 28 when he became an intern near the beginning of the [[ Nixon]] Administration. He quickly came to the attention of [[Donald Rumsfeld]], then directing the Office of Economic Opportunity, and was promoted to a paid position in 1971. When [[Watergate]] forced Nixon's resignation in 1973, Cheney became vice president of an investment firm for a year, but Rumsfeld convinced [[Gerald Ford]] upon the latter's accession to the presidency that Cheney was indispensable, and he was recalled to public service. Eventually Cheney replaced Rumsfeld as [[Chief of Staff]] to Ford as Rumsfeld was promoted to [[Secretary of Defense]]. In 1978-88, Cheney served in Congress from Wyoming, becoming the Republican Whip (the #2 job). Cheney served as Secretary of Defense for President [[George H. W. Bush]] in the late 1980s. In the 1990s Cheney worked for the big oil-supply company Halliburton, becoming CEO in 1995. After he left the company with a retirement package of $33 million (which went into a blind trust which Cheney does not control), leftist critics alleged that he twisted American foreign policy for the benefit of Halliburton.