Dick Cheney: A Life in Pictures

Dick Cheney, who was vice president under President George W. Bush for two terms, died on Monday aged 84.

Regarded as the most powerful vice president in United States history Mr. Cheney was a consummate Washington insider and an architect of policies of sweeping consequence in an era of war and economic change.

These photos give a glimpse of his life and long career.

Mr. Cheney became the White House chief of staff under President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, when he was 34, making him the youngest person to hold the post.

Mr. Cheney, left, in Washington in 1982, when he was Wyoming’s lone congressman. With him are, from left, Representative Tom Loeffler, Republican of Texas; Marge Roukema, Republican of New Jersey and Carroll Campbell, Republican of South Carolina.

Mr. Cheney was announced as President George H.W. Bush’s secretary of defense at the White House in 1989.

Mr. Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addressed members of the 354th Tactical Fighter Wing in Saudi Arabia in 1991, a few months after the end of the Persian Gulf war.

Mr. Cheney, with his daughter Liz, was sworn in as vice president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2001, after he and George W. Bush were elected to the White House.

Mr. Cheney with President Bush in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center in Washington after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, in a photograph released by the White House.

Mr. Cheney in 2002, during a meeting held by President Bush on federal judicial nominations with members of Congress at the White House.

Mr. Cheney, center, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, fourth from left, using used a sword to cut a cake for the U.S. Army’s 228th birthday during a ceremony at the Pentagon.

Lynne Cheney, Mr. Cheney’s wife, introduced him at a campaign stop in Cornwall, Pa., ahead of the presidential election in 2004.

Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush celebrated their re-election at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington on Nov. 3, 2004.

Mr. Cheney hunting pheasants in South Dakota in 2002. In 2006, he accidentally shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old lawyer, while hunting in Texas.

Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush arriving to sign a major tax bill in 2006 at the White House.

Mr. Cheney with Mr. Bush at the Pentagon in 2006 for the swearing-in of Robert Gates, who replaced Mr. Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.

Mr. Cheney watched as President Bush gave a news conference in the White House Rose Garden in April 2007, a month after I. Lewis Libby Jr., Mr. Cheney’s former chief of staff, was convicted of lying during a C.I.A. leak investigation.

Mr. Cheney with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, left, and Trent Lott, right, the Republican whip in the Senate, on Capitol Hill in 2007 as he made remarks about a bill to fund the Iraq war.

Mr. Cheney at the Department of the Treasury in 2007.

Mr. Cheney and Mrs. Cheney with President Bush and Laura Bush, the first lady, at the White House in 2008 during a moment of silence to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Cheney in 2014, after leaving office, during a discussion U.S. foreign policy at The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He was an outspoken critic of the Obama Administration.

Mr. Cheney with Liz Cheney in 2017, after her election to Congress.

A bust of Mr. Cheney in the Capitol in January.