Lynne Ann Cheney (née
Vincent) (born August 14, 1941) is the wife of former
United States Vice PresidentThe Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term...
Dick CheneyRichard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the administration of George W. Bush....
and served as the
Second Lady of the United StatesThe visibility in the public sphere of the wife of the Vice President of the United States has been a recent development, as late 20th century and early 21st century vice presidential wives increasingly took on public policy roles that attracted a great deal of media attention...
from 2001 to 2009. She is a novelist,
conservativeConservatism is the diverse political and social philosophy that supports tradition and the status quo, or that calls for a return to the values and society of an earlier age, the status quo ante. However, the term has been used by politicians and political commentators with a variety of meanings...
scholar, and former talk-show host.
A descendant of
Mormon