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Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th president

October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969

Republican

8 years: 1953 - 1961

Childhood

Childhood

Basic Info

Born October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas to David Jacobs Eisenhower and Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. Third of seven sons

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While living in Abilene his 10 month old brother died of diphtheria; Eisenhower was 4

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After high school he worked for his dad's creamery

and as a firefighter to pay his brothers tuition

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Played football and baseball for Abilene High School

EDUCATION

Education

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Graduating class of 1909 at Abilene High School, in Kansas

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In 1911 he was appointed at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York

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After Graduating from the academy in 1915 he became a second lieutenant

Personal life & family

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After graduating from the academy he was sent to Texas where he met his future wife Mamie Geneva Doud; married July 1, 1916

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1917: they have their first son, Doud Dwight. Sadly in 1921 Doud died of Scarlet Fever. 1922: They have their second son, John Sheldon Doud

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There were rumors that he was having an affair while in Europe, preparing for D-Day, with a woman named Kay Summersby; he denied these rumors in the letters he sent to his wife

Work experiences

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For the first few years of his Military career he moved post to post, going to Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey with his future wife, Mamie.

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WWI started the same year his first same was born; during WWI he was sent to run a tank training center at Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Promotions:

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After academy: Second lieutenant

1920: Major

1922: executive officer to General Fox Connor

1927-1929: toured and reported for the War Department under General John Pershing

1929, after tour: chief military aide to General Douglas MacArthur

1935-1939, under MacArthur: assistant military adviser in the Philippines

1941: chief of staff for the Third Army; soon promoted to brigadier general

1942: major general; not long after became commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces and led Operation Torch, and Allied invasion

1944: commanded Allied forces in the Normandy invasion, later promoted to five-star rank

1945: military governor of the U.S. Occupied Zone after Germany's surrender; few months after returning to Abilene he became U.S. Army chief of staff

1948-1950: president of Columbia University; left Colombia to be first Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Presidency

Retired from the military and announced his candidacy in 1952 for the Republican party; he won by a very large margin

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He was also reelected in 1956 by a bigger margin than before

1953: he organized an armistice, truce, that brought peace to South Korean borders; that same year he had his "Atoms for Peace" speech where he promoted the use of atomic energy to be used for peace rather than warfare

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During his second term he:

1. created the U.S. Information Agency

2. established Alaska and Hawaii as states

3. supported the creation of the Interstate Highway System

4. signed the 1957 Civil Rights Act

5. signed the bill for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Fact 3

1. He banished the squirrels at the White House because they were ruining his putting green

Interesting Facts

2. While president at Colombia University he became an avid painter and painted more than 200 paintings

3. After serving 35 years in the military he has never seen active combat

In my opinion I think Dwight D. Eisenhower was a good president. I think this because he was very successful in his goals, one of them being to lower cold war tensions, but he was also very successful in leading and protecting the country. For example, according to fpri.org, "Although not a politician per se, Eisenhower succeeded because he managed to bring his unique outsider perspectives to bear on international and domestic problems. He was a thinking general adept at coalition politics, not an action man thinking with his pistol. He also displayed a strong commitment to sensible American leadership. The key strategic skills of prioritization, combined with a firmness and clarity of purpose that was not swayed by the affairs of the day very much characterized Eisenhower’s adroit and impressive presidency. It did not sparkle, and was all the better for that." This means that Eisenhower was open minded and intelligent, but willing to do whatever he could for the country.

My opinion

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