Dwight David EISENHOWER, 33RD PRESIDENT UNITED STATES

                   After growing up in Abeline, Kansas, he graduated West Point in 1915.His term
of service in the United States Army was to continue until 1948.
In WW II he became the Allied Supreme Commander for the ETO (EuropeanTheater
of Operations). He commanded almost three million Allied troops.
After WW II he became U.S. Army chief of staff (1945 to 1948)  From1948 until
1953, he was President of Columbia University. It was from this postthat he
took a leave-of-absence, in 1950, to take command of NATO (NorthAtlantic
Treaty Organization). On 20 January, 1953, he became the 34th.President of
the United States of America.
His wife Mamie was born and raised in Boone, Boone, Iowa. She was abit older
(born in 1889) than Martha Vincent Crary Nesbitt (born in 1903) (my
mother,JFN, 1996) but they were contemporaries in that small, ruralcommunity
and knew each other, however distantly.
After two terms in the White House (Maximum mandated by law), heretired to
his farm, located near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was there that hedied on
28 Mar 1969, at the age of 78.
Dwight was a Member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of theUnited
States (1865).
Sources include, but are not limited to;
The Hereditary Register of the United States (1981).
Born October 14, 1890, at Denison, Texas, third of seven sons of David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. The family returned to Abilene, Kansas, in 1892. Graduated from Abilene High School, 1909. Worked at Belle Springs Creamery, 1909-1911.
Entered United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, June 14, 1911, and graduated June 12, 1915. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant, September 1915.
Served with the Infantry September 1915 to February 1918 in Fort Sam Houston, Camp Wilson and Leon Springs, Texas and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Served with the Tank Corps, February 1918 to January 1922 in Camp Meade, Maryland, Camp Colt, Pennsylvania, Camp Dix, New Jersey, Fort Benning, Georgia, and Fort Meade, Maryland. Promoted to First Lieutenant on July 1, 1916; Captain on May 15, 1917; Major (temporary) on June 17, 1918; and to Lieutenant Colonel (temporary) on October 14, 1918. Reverted to permanent rank of Captain on June 30, 1920 and was promoted to Major on July 2, 1920.
Volunteered to Participate as a Tank Corps observer in the First Transcontinental Motor Convoy from July 7, 1919 to September 6, 1919. Assigned as executive officer to General Fox Conner, Camp Gaillard, Panama Canal Zone, January 1922 to September 1924. Served in various capacities in Maryland and Colorado until August 1925.
Entered Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, August 19, 1925, graduated first in a class of 245, June 18, 1926. Served as battalion commander, 24th Infantry, Fort Benning, Georgia, August 1926 to January 1927.
Next assigned to American Battle Monuments Commission, directed by General John J. Pershing. January to August 1927 served in Washington, D.C. office, writing a guidebook to World War I battlefields. In charge of guidebook revision and European office, Paris, France July 1928 to September 1929.
August 27, 1927, entered Army War College, Washington, D.C. and graduated June 30, 1928.
Served as executive officer to General George V. Moseley, Assistant Secretary of War, Washington, D.C., November 1929 to February 1933. Served as chief military aide to General Douglas MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff, until September 1935.
September 1935 to December 1939 assigned to General MacArthur as assistant military advisor to the Philippine Government. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, July 1, 1936.
Assigned to General DeWitt Clinton, Commander, 15th Infantry, for a short term in Fort Ord, California, and then permanently to Fort Lewis, Washington as regimental executive, February 1940 to November 1940. Chief of Staff for General Thompson, Commander, 3rd Division, Fort Lewis until March 1941. Served as Chief of Staff to General Kenyon Joyce, Commander 9th Army Corps, Fort Lewis, until June 1941. Designated Chief of Staff to General Walter Kreuger, Commander 3rd Army, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, June 1941 to December 1941. Promoted to Colonel (temporary), March 11, 1941, and to Brigadier General (temporary), September 29, 1941.
Assigned to General Staff, Washington, D.C., December 1941 to June 1942. Named Deputy Chief in charge of Pacific Defenses under Chief of War Plans Division, General Leonard Gerow, December 1941. Designated as Chief of War Plans Division, February 1942. In April 1942, appointed Assistant Chief of Staff
Defeated Adlai E. Stevenson in the 1952 and 1956 elections. The 1952 popular
vote was 33,936,234 to 27,314,992, the electoral vote 442 to 89. The 1956
votes were 35,590,472 to 26,022,752 and 457 to 73 (one democratic elector
voted for Walter B. Jones of Alabama). His vice-president was the 37th
president, Richard M. Nixon, who lost the close 1960 election to John F.
Kennedy. Eisenhower was Supreme Allied Commander to Europe during WW II.
Called Ike.