Cheney, Richard Bruce (Dick)

1941 – Born on the 30^th of January in Lincoln, Nebraska and grew up in Casper, Wyoming.

1969 - He joined the Nixon Administration, serving in a number of positions at the Cost of Living Council, at the Office of Economic Opportunity, and within the White House.

1974 – He served on the transition team when Gerald Ford assumed the Presidency and Richard became the Deputy Assistant to the President.

1975 - He was named Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff, a position he held throughout the remainder of the Ford Administration.

1978 - He served as a U.S. Representative from Wyoming for 11 years.

1988 – He was elected House Minority Whip.

1989 - Dick Cheney appointed George Bush's Secretary of Defense, where he presided over the Operation Just Cause (the invasion of Panama) and Operation Desert Storm.

1991 – George Bush awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

1993 - Senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute.

1995 - Becomes Chairman and CEO of Halliburton.

2000 – He suffered heart attack.

2001 - He became the Vice-president of United States of America.

2005 - Vice President Dick Cheney unintentionally shoots his hunting partner Harry Whittington in the face and chest using his shotgun.