Who is Liz Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney?

UNDER George W Bush, Republican Dick Cheney served as the US vice president from 2001 to 2009.

And politics runs in the family, with Dick backing his daughter Liz Cheney who has been the US representative for Wyoming since 2017.

Who is Dick Cheney?

Dick Cheney, whose full name is Richard Bruce Cheney, is a former US vice president and businessman from .

He is considered the most powerful vice president in history during his eight-year term alongside former president George W. Bush.

Raised in Sumner, Nebraska, and Casper, Wyoming, Cheney went to Yale University and then the University of Wyoming, where he received his Bachelor's degree before moving on to obtain his Master's degree in political science at the University of Wisconsin.

He began his political career in the White House under former President and former President Gerald Ford and served as the Chief of Staff from 1975-1977.

From March 1989 to January 1993, Cheney directed two impactful military campaigns - Operation Just Cause in Panama and Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East.

Operation Just Cause was an invasion of Panama to remove General Manuel Noreiga from power. He was then extradited to the US for drug trafficking and money laundering charges.

Operation Desert Storm was carried out during the Gulf War to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait after they invaded and annexed the country months earlier.

Cheney was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his leadership in the Gulf War by President George HW Bush on July 3, 1991.

He is also thought to have played a significant role in the Bush administration's response to the 9/11 attacks and the global war on terrorism that followed and during his visit to Afghanistan, there was a failed assassination attempt against him on February 27, 2007, when a suicide bomber killed 23 people.

Who is Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney?

Liz Cheney is a House representative who has spearheaded the House select committee in the investigation of the January 6 Capitol riot and Donald Trump's role on that day.

She is running for re-election but has been ostracized from the Republican party for leading the committee and has been strongly criticised by Trump loyalists and has been called a RINO (Republican In Name Only).

She was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 and later was elevated to the third-ranking Republican in the House but was removed from her position as chair of the House Republican Conference on May 12, 2021.