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Born in Lincoln, Neb., Vice President Dick Cheney attended Yale University but took his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University of Wyoming. He served as chief of staff under President Gerald Ford from 1975 until 1977. In 1978, Cheney was elected to the first of five terms in Congress from Wyoming and later was chosen as a party whip. As secretary of defense under President George H.W. Bush, Cheney oversaw the U.S. military in its first years of the post-Cold War era. After leaving the Pentagon, he became a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Later, he became CEO of the Dallas, Texas-based Halliburton Company, which provides services to the oil industry. Cheney has endured a long history of health problems, including four heart attacks and a the insertion of a pacemaker in June 2001. He and wife Lynne V. Cheney, the former chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, have two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary.
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