Dwight Eisenhower

BIRTH NAME
David Dwight Eisenhower

POLITICAL PARTY
Republican

RELIGION
Presbyterian

EDUCATION
West Point, 1915

VITALS
5 ft 10.5 in / 171 lbs

CAREER
1915-18 Second lieutenant, U.S. Army, San Antonio, Texas
1919-35 Major, tank commander, military aide
1935-39 Chief military aide, General Douglas MacArthur, Philippines
1939-41 Commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, Fort Lewis, Washington
1941-42 Brigadier general, U.S. Army General Staff, Washington, D.C.
1942-43 Commanding General, European Theater of Operations, London
1943-45 Supreme Allied Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force
1945-48 Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
1948-53 President, Columbia University
1950-52 Supreme Commander, NATO

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 4, 1952
Popular: Eisenhower 33,936,234 (55%) Adlai E. Stevenson 27,314,992 (44%)
Electoral: Eisenhower 442 Stevenson 89
November 6, 1956
Popular: Eisenhower 35,590,472 (57%) Stevenson 26,022,752 (42%);
Electoral: Eisenhower 457 Stevenson 73 W.B. Jones 1

VICE PRESIDENT
Richard M. Nixon (1953-61)

ADMINISTRATION
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed, Department of Health, Education, & Welfare created, Korean Armistice Agreement, Chance for Peace & Atoms for Peace speeches (1953); Army-McCarthy hearings, Brown v. Board of Education (1954); Federal Highway Act (1956); Civil Rights Act, Federal troops in Little Rock (1957); NASA created (1958); U-2 spy plane shot down (1960)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Earl Warren (Chief), John Marshall Harlan II, William Brennan, Charles Whittaker, Potter Stewart

NEW STATES
Alaska, Hawaii (1959)

FIRST LADY
Mary "Mamie" Geneva Doud (1953-61)

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
Farewell Address, January 17, 1961

Portrait of Dwight Eisenhower by J. Anthony Wills, 1967.