(AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney will attend a birthday celebration and barbecue Sept. 30 for former U.S. Sen. Cliff Hansen. The gathering will serve as a fundraiser for the Wyoming Republican Party as well. Hansen, a Republican, spent more than 40 years in public service, including terms as a Teton County commissioner, a trustee at the University of Wyoming, governor of Wyoming and a U.S. senator. He will be 94.

Hansen was governor in 1965 when Cheney worked as an intern in the Wyoming Legislature.

The event is invitation only. Tickets reportedly cost $500 for the barbecue and $750 to have a photo taken with the vice president but Jeanie Wright, communications director for the Wyoming Republican Party, would not confirm those figures. -Noah Brenner contributed to this story