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From March 11 to June 5, 1956, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1956 United States presidential election.Incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1956 Republican National Convention held from August 20 to August 23, 1956, in San Francisco, California.
Eisenhower was born David Dwight Eisenhower in Denison, Texas, on October 14, 1890, the third of seven sons born to Ida and David. [8] His mother soon reversed his two forenames after his birth to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family. [9] He was named Dwight after the evangelist Dwight L. Moody. [10]
The first 1961 State of the Union Address was delivered in written format [1] by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, on Thursday, January 12, 1961, to the 87th United States Congress. [2] It was Eisenhower's ninth and final State of the Union Address.
The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois from July 7 to 11, 1952, and nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, nicknamed "Ike", for president and Richard M. Nixon of California for vice president.
January 20 – Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower; September 9 – Civil Rights Act of 1957; October 4 – Sputnik 1 is launched, the first artificial Earth satellite. October 5 – The White House praises Russia's launch of an earth satellite, saying that the launch was not surprising to President Eisenhower or the government. [39]
It renominated President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon as the party's candidates for the 1956 presidential election. On August 23, 1956, singer Nat King Cole spoke at the Republican Convention.
Dwight David Eisenhower II is more than the 76-year-old grandson of the late general. The grandfather, who died in 1969 at age 78, also was the U.S. president in 1953-61 but preferred to be ...
Events from the year 1956 in Michigan.. The major stories of 1956 in Michigan included: (1) tornado outbreaks that struck western Michigan on April 2 and central and eastern Michigan on May 12; (2) the November 6 elections in which Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower won Michigan's 20 electoral votes while Democrat G. Mennen Williams won re-election to a fifth term as Governor of ...