Mary Cheney Biography

Occup.	Celebrity
From	USA
Born	March 14, 1969
Age	55 years

Early Life and Education
Mary Claire Cheney was born upon March 14, 1969, in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. She is the youngest little girl of former United States Vice President Dick Cheney as well as his other half, Lynne Cheney. Mary Cheney has an older sibling, Elizabeth Cheney, who is an American lawyer and politician.

Maturing in Casper, Wyoming, Mary went to Natrona County High School, where she was a secondary school supporter. She later pursued her bachelor's degree at Colorado College, where she majored in history. Mary took place to obtain her Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business in 2002.

Occupation
Mary Cheney has worked in personal and public fields throughout her occupation. In the mid-1990s, she joined the re-election campaign of her dad, who back then was a Wyoming congressman, as well as aided his election for U.S. House of Representatives. Subsequently, she tackled numerous functions within the U.S. government.

In 2000, Mary joined her daddy's vice presidential campaign as a behind the curtain consultant and media relationships assistant. Her function expanded extra considerable during George W. Bush's 2004 re-election project, where she worked as the director of vice presidential procedures. Throughout her time in politics, Mary's focus got on taking care of media partnerships and browsing the complex political landscape.

After the 2004 re-election campaign, Mary signed up with the economic sector as a senior-level executive for the AOL-Time Warner Corporation. In this role, she took care of strategic collaborations, partnerships, and development initiatives across the company.

By 2007, she changed gears and ended up being the principal at calculated consulting firm Navigators Global. Her job focused on supplying tactical advice to company clients within telecoms, financial solutions, and also health care markets.

Personal Life
Mary Cheney has actually been open to the general public regarding her sexuality as a lesbian, which has brought both assistance and objection from different quarters. In acknowledgment of her noticeable role as a lesbian specific connected to prominent political events, Mary has actually included herself in LGBT campaigning for. Most significantly, she dealt with the Republican Unity Coalition, which targeted at making homosexuality a non-issue within the GOP.

Mary married her long time companion, Heather Poe, on June 22, 2012, in Washington, D.C. In 2007, Mary gave birth to her initial youngster, a son named Samuel David Cheney, and in 2009, her 2nd child, a little girl called Sarah Lynne Cheney, was born.

Family Rift
Mary's visibility regarding her sexuality triggered tension within her family members, particularly when her sis, Liz Cheney, ran for a U.S. Senate seat in Wyoming in 2013. Liz notably opposed same-sex marriage, leaving Mary to openly slam her sis on social media sites. This dispute created a rift between the two siblings, leading the Cheneys to freely express their love for both of their daughters however reaffirm their assistance for typical marriage, which triggered additional discouragement for Mary.

Legacy
As the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, Mary Cheney has led a life in the limelight. She has fearlessly browsed her profession as well as personal life while facing outside pressures, objection, as well as tense family members characteristics. Mary's visibility as an influential lesbian figure within the Republican Party has actually opened conversations within the GOP about LGBT civil liberties as well as the acceptance of nontraditional families.

Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Mary.

Related authors: George W. Bush (President), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Lynne Cheney (Author), Ice T (Musician), Dick Cheney (Vice President)

20 Famous quotes by Mary Cheney

"I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing"

"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids"

"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought"

"John Kerry didn't out me, nor did he offend or attack me by calling me a lesbian. I certainly couldn't be offended by the truth"

"I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado"

"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate"

"I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was"

"Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything"

"After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much"

"It's always better to deliver the news yourself rather than allow your boss to be surprised"

"Early numbers are always wrong"

"I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage"

"There are millions of gay people in the United States, including well-known celebrities"

"Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was"

"It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car"

"I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter"

"In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers"

"Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention"

"Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time"

"I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay"