DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By: Robert Montgomery

First Lady: Marie "Mamie" Geneva Doud Eisenhower, Wife

Number of Children: 2 Education Level: College School Attended: United States Military

Academy, Command & General Staff School Religion: Presbyterian Profession: Military, President of Columbia

University Military Service: General (5 star)

Born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons.

Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916.

During his presidential terms, the Interstate Highway System and NASA were created.

Just before his second term ended, Hawaii and Alaska became the 49th and 50th states.

Eisenhower was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1936 after sixteen years as a major.

He also learned to fly, although he was never rated as a military pilot. He made a solo flight over the Philippines in 1937.

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.

As recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944, he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

Sources

http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=33

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

http://www.dwightdeisenhower.com/biodde.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/dwightdeisenhower