Dwight David Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in a large family of mostly Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army.
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Dwight David Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in a large family of mostly Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War II, he became a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. In 1952, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican to block the isolationist foreign policies of Senator Robert A. Taft; Taft opposed NATO and wanted no foreign entanglements. Eisenhower won that election and the 1956 election in landslides, both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II. His main goals in office were to contain the spread of communism and reduce federal deficits. His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence prioritized inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing funding for expensive Army divisions. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent Army troops to enforce federal court orders which integrated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. He approved the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was left to John F. Kennedy to carry out. After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, Eisenhower authorized the establishment of NASA, which led to the Space Race. In his farewell address to the nation, he expressed his concerns about the dangers of massive military spending, particularly deficit spending and government contracts to private military manufacturers, which he dubbed “the military–industrial complex” He died in Washington, D.C.
on December 18, 1961, at the age of 89. He is survived by his wife, four children, and six grandchildren. His great-great-grandson, David Jacob Eisenhower, was a college-educated engineer, despite his own father’s own Protestant ancestry, who moved to Kansas from Virginia, in 1741. He died of a heart attack on December 19, 1961. His wife, Ida Ida Eisenhower, died on December 20, 1961 at the same age as her son, David Dwight Eisenhower, who was also born in Kansas, and died of heart failure on December 21, 1962. His son, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jr., was a physician and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981. He served as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1981 to 1984. He also served as president of Columbia University from 1984 to 1986. His grandson, Michael Eisenhower, served as President of the University of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1989. He had a son, Michael D. Jr., who served as Vice President of United States from 1989 to 1991. His grandchildren, Michael and David Eisenhower, were both physicians and served at the University of Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1994. His father, Jacob, was also a college educated engineer, and his great-grandfather, Jacob Jacob, moved to Pennsylvania, in 1841, from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1741, to Lancaster, Lancaster, and York, Pennsylvania.
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