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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower Before becoming the 34th U.S. president, Dwight D. Eisenhower was supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II. He is shown here in June 1956, at age 65.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th president of the United States
Also known as: David Dwight Eisenhhower, Dwight David Eisenhower(Show More)
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Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Parkside. Author of Freedom and the Foundation: The Fund for the Republic in the Era of McCarthyism and others.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (born October 14, 1890, Denison, Texas, U.S.—died March 28, 1969, Washington, D.C.) was the 34th president of the United States (1953–61), who had been supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II. Eisenhower was the third of seven sons of David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower. In the spring of 1891 the Eisenhowers left Denison, Texas, and returned to Abilene, Kansas, where their forebears had settled...

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