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Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison,Texas the third of seven sons born to David J. Eisenhower spent his youth in the small farm town of Abilene, kansas. Eisenhower enjoyed hunting fishing and playing football. One day Eisenhower won an appointment to West Point, where he played football until he suffered a serious knee injury.
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In 1915 he graduates West Point. Eisenhower was more interested playing sports than studying in school . He then went to the U.S Military Academy where he ranked 61st academically out of 164 graduates.
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On 1917 Eisenhower and his wife started a new life and wanted to have a family together on 1917 is when the first was born and many more to come. Eisenhower mother was called Ida Stover Eisenhower. Eisenhower father was called David Jacob Eisenhower.
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He served as an aide first to General John J. Pershing, commander of U.S. forces in World War I, and then to General Douglas MacArthur, the Army's chief of staff. He participated in WWll.
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He was in the Republican Party when the voting was casting and he won the Presidency and ran for president for the second time and won the Presidency again.
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Eisenhower has impacted and helped the U.s in many ways such as... In the article it states... "Dwight D. Eisenhower's reputation among historians has changed dramatically in the last five decades. A poll of prominent historians in 1962 placed Eisenhower 22nd among Presidents... Two decades later, his ranking had moved up to 11th, and by 1994, he placed 8th, the same position he held in a C-SPAN poll of presidential historians in 2009. Among Presidents who held office in the last 75 years.
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March 28, 1969 (aged 78) Washington, D.C., U.S. Resting place Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home. A popular president, he oversaw a period of great economic growth in the United States and deftly navigated the country through increasing Cold War tension on the world stage. In 1961, he retired with his wife, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, to his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He died in 1969 and was buried on a family plot in Abilene, Kansas.