Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Ike Eisenhower was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a fivestar general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 194243 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 194445 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO.

Hanss greatgreatgrandson, David Jacob Eisenhower , was Eisenhowers father and was a collegeeducated engineer, despite his own father Jacobs urging to stay on the family farm. Eisenhowers mother, Ida Elizabeth Eisenhower, born in Virginia, of German Protestant ancestry, moved to Kansas from Virginia. She married David on September 23, 1885, in Lecompton, Kansas, on the campus of their alma mater, Lane University.

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