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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.
The Eisenhower family home in Abilene, Kansas. 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 ...
The Eisenhower Home in Abilene, Kansas, at the Eisenhower Presidential Center, was the house where U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower lived with his five brothers from 1898 to 1911, when he entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at age 20.
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 ...
Pages in category "Eisenhower family" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Dwight D. Eisenhower; Earl D. Eisenhower; Edgar N. Eisenhower;
General Dwight D. Eisenhower. On this day 68 years ago, nearly 3 million Allied troops readied themselves for one of the greatest military operations of world history. D-Day. And the push that ...
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 ...