Dwight D' Eisenhower

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

• By Rachel

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34th President

• In office January 20, 1953 January 20,1961
• Vice President -Richard Nixon
• Preceded by Harry S. Truman
• Succeeded by John F. Kennedy
• Political Party Republican
• Signature -

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Home Life

• Birth October 14, 1890 Denison Texas U.S.
• Death March 28,1969 (age 78)
• Political Party Republican
• Spouse Mamie Doud Eisenhower
• Full Name David Dwight Ike Eisenhower
• Parents David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida
  Elizabeth Stover

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Education and Athletic Career

• Dwight D. Eisenhower attended Abilene High School
  in Abilene, Kansas and graduated with the class
  of 1909.At West Point, Eisenhower tried out for
  the baseball team but did not make it. Eisenhower
  said Not making the baseball team at West Point
  was one of the greatest disappointments of my
  life, maybe the greatest. But Eisenhower did make
  the football team. The next week however,
  Eisenhower hurt his knee after being tackled
  around the ankles, which he soon would worsen and
  permanently damage on horseback and in the boxing
  ring.

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Death and Funeral

• Eisenhower died of congestive heart failure on
  March 28, 1969 at Walter Reed Army Hospital in
  Washington D.C. The following day his body was
  moved to the Washington National Cathedrals
  Bethlehem Chapel where he lay in repose for
  twenty-eight hours. Eisenhower is buried next to
  his son Doud who died at age 3 ,and his wife,
  Mamie, who died in 1979.

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The Eisenhower Family

• Eisenhower was born in Denison ,Texas, the first
  president born in that state. He was the third of
  seven sons. Eisenhowers family settled in
  Abilene, Kansas in 1892. His father was a college
  educated engineer. Eisenhower graduated from
  Abilene High School in 1909. Mamie and David had
  two sons. Doud Dwight Eisenhower was born
  September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on
  January 2, 1921 at the age of three. Their second
  son, John Sheldon David Doud Eisenhower, was born
  the following year on August 3, 1922.

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