Dwight D. Eisenhower.
*President
- was the 34th President of the US from,1953 until 1961
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*World War two
-5 star General in the us army.
-he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower family migrated from Karlsbrunn.Then Germany to Switzerland in the 17th century due to religious things , and a century later came to the United States.the Eisenhower family settled in York, Pennsylvania in 1730, and in the 1880s they moved to Kansas.
Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third of seven boys. Originally named him David Dwight,All of the boys were called "Ike", such as "Big Ike" (Edgar) and "Little Ike" (Dwight); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name. Ida Stover and David Eisenhower met, as students, at Lane University in LeCompton, Kansas, where they married. They had 6 childern.
Those first years took Eisenhower to military posts in Texas, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and, then he went back to again to Georgia and Maryland. From 1922 to 1924, Eisenhower served as executive officer to General Fox Conner, a highly respected Army officer, in the Panama Canal Zone. ..Eisenhower immersed himself in seminal works of history, military science, and philosophy.Eisenhower was than accepted into the Command and General Staff School in Kansas, the army's elite graduate school. In 1926, he graduated first in a class of 245 of the Army's finest young officers
After the war, Eisenhower reverted to his regular rank of captain and a few days later was promoted to major, a rank he held for 16 years.His new expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with George S. Patton and other senior tank leaders;In 1935 he accompanied MacArthur to the Philippines, where he served as assistant military adviser to the Philippine government in developing their army. Historians have concluded that this assignment provided valuable preparation for handling the challenging personalities of Winston Churchill, George S. Patton, George Marshall and General Montgomery during World War II.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Eisenhower was assigned to the General Staff in Washington, where he served until June 1942 with responsibility for creating the major war plans to defeat Japan and Germany.1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.In the 1960 election to choose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat John F. Kennedy.Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On March 28, 1969, Eisenhower died of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C
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