Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris persuaded him to run for President in 1952. He commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November 1942 on D-Day, 1944, he was Supreme Commander of the troops invading France.Īfter the war, he became President of Columbia University, then took leave to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. In his early Army career, he excelled in staff assignments, serving under Generals John J. Stationed in Texas as a second lieutenant, he met Mamie Geneva Doud, whom he married in 1916. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. He pursued the moderate policies of “Modern Republicanism,” pointing out as he left office, “America is today the strongest, most influential, and most productive nation in the world.”īorn in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms (1953-1961) to ease the tensions of the Cold War.īringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. The biography for President Eisenhower and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association.īringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D.
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