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The family of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, and his wife, Mamie, consists predominantly of German and Pennsylvania Dutch background. They are related by marriage to the family of Richard Nixon, who was Eisenhower's vice-president, and was later the 37th president of the United States.
Eisenhower was born in Hope, Kansas, the second oldest of seven Eisenhower brothers, six of them surviving infancy. Dwight D. Eisenhower, one year his junior, served in various roles in the United States Army before becoming president in 1953. Edgar's youngest brother, Milton S. Eisenhower became a university president.
On October 12, 1927, Eisenhower married Helen Elsie Eakin (1904–1954), with whom he had a son, Milton Stover Eisenhower, Jr. (1930–2002), and a daughter, Ruth Eakin Eisenhower (1938–1984). While attending college at Kansas State University, Eisenhower was a member of the fraternities Delta Sigma Pi , Phi Kappa Phi , Sigma Alpha Epsilon ...
Kathleen Helen Summersby BEM (née MacCarthy-Morrogh; 23 November 1908 – 20 January 1975), known as Kay Summersby, was a member of the British Mechanised Transport Corps during World War II, who served as a chauffeur and later as personal secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower during his period as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in command of the Allied forces in north west Europe.
The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall for the Bible Students from 1896 to 1915 but her sons, although raised there, never joined the movement. [6] She had seven sons: Arthur Bradford Eisenhower (1886–1958) Edgar Newton Eisenhower (1889–1971) Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th president of the United States.
A statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower by Jim Brothers stands in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. During his two terms as president, Eisenhower's approval ratings were consistently high, only briefly falling below 50 percent in 1958 and again in 1960. [285]
In a new book Presidents At War, author Steven M. Gillon takes a look at how World War II impacted a generation of presidents — from Eisenhower and JFK through George H.W. Bush — and, he says ...
Earl Dewey Eisenhower (February 1, 1898 – December 18, 1968) was an American electrical engineer and legislator, as well as the younger brother of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Early life and education