Dick Cheney, the former vice president who is largely credited with becoming one of the most influential vice presidents in modern American history, died Monday at the age of 84, his family announced.
Cheney died from complications related to pneumonia as well as cardiac and vascular disease, the family said. He battled cardiovascular disease much of his adult life, experiencing at least five heart attacks between 1978 and 2010 and undergoing a heart transplant in 2012.
