Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the United States |
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| In office January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 |
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| Vice President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Harry S. Truman |
| Succeeded by | John F. Kennedy |
| 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe | |
| In office April 2, 1951 – May 30, 1952 |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Deputy | Sir Arthur Tedder |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Matthew Ridgway |
| 16th Chief of Staff of the Army | |
| In office November 19, 1945 – February 6, 1948 |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Deputy | J. Lawton Collins |
| Preceded by | George Marshall |
| Succeeded by | Omar Bradley |
| 1st Governor of the American Zone of Occupied Germany | |
| In office May 8, 1945 – November 10, 1945 |
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| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Joseph T. McNarney |
| 13th President of Columbia University | |
| In office 1948–1953 |
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| Preceded by | Nicholas Murray Butler |
| Succeeded by | Grayson L. Kirk |
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| Born | October 14, 1890 Denison, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | March 28, 1969 (aged 78) Walter Reed General Hospital Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Resting place | Eisenhower Presidential Center Abilene, Kansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mamie Doud (m. 1916; his death 1969) |
| Children | Doud and John |
| Alma mater | U.S. Military Academy |
| Profession | Army officer Politician |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Awards | Army Distinguished Service Medal (5) Navy Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit Order of the Southern Cross Order of the Bath Order of Merit Legion of Honor |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. Dwight was the third of his guardians’ seven children. His guardians had moved from Abilene, Kansas, to Denison, Texas, before he was conceived. In Denison, the family lived in a modest house close to the railroad tracks while David cleaned train motors professionally.
At the point when Dwight was eighteen months old, his family moved back to Abilene so David could take a superior employment at his brother by marriage creamery.
In Abilene, Dwight’s 10-month-old sibling Paul kicked the bucket of diphtheria when Dwight was 4 years of age. In spite of the catastrophe, Dwight shaped cheerful youth recollections in Abilene that he would appreciate for the duration of his life. Among these were his days playing baseball and football at Abilene High School.
After Dwight D. Eisenhower moved on from secondary school in 1909, he joined his dad and uncle at the Belle Springs Creamery while additionally working two jobs as a fire fighter. Dwight D. Eisenhower utilized the cash he earned to pay his more youthful sibling Edgar’s educational cost at the University of Michigan. The siblings had an arrangement: After two years, they’d switch places—with Edgar then attempting to backing Dwight D. Eisenhower’s school training. Fortunately for Edgar, he never needed to experience his end of the arrangement.
In 1911, Dwight handled an arrangement at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, where participation was gratis. At the end of the day he was a star on the football field, until a progression of knee wounds constrained him to quit playing. In 1915, Dwight D. Eisenhower gladly moved on from West Point, and was appointed as a second lieutenant.
Taking after his administration, Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned to a farmhouse in Gettysburg with his wife, Mamie. Despite the fact that he had surrendered his bonus as a general when he got to be president, when he cleared out office his successor, President Kennedy, reactivated his bonus. He likewise kept an office at Gettysburg College for the rest of his life, where he held gatherings and composed his journals.
Dwight D. Eisenhower kicked the bucket on March 28, 1969, at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., taking after a long stretch of torment from a heart-related ailment. Notwithstanding a state burial service in the country’s capital, a military memorial service was held in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s cherished main residence of Abilene, Kansas.
