- Thirty-fourth President (1953-1961)
- Birthday: October 14, 1890 (Tuesday)
- Birthplace: Denison, Texas
- Zodiac Sign: Libra
- Date of Death: March 28, 1969 (Friday)
- Place of Death: Washington DC
- Place of Burial: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home, Abilene, Kansas
- Cause of Death: Coronary thrombosis, heart failure
- Age: 78 years old
- Length of Retirement: 2989 days
- Religion: Presbyterian
- Party: Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower Offices Held
- First Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1951-1952)
- Sixteenth Chief of Staff of the Army (1945-1948)
- First Governor of American Zone of Occupied Germany (1945-1945)
- Thirteenth President of Columbia University (1948-1953)
- Five-Star General
Dwight D. Eisenhower Nicknames
- Ike
- General Ike
- Kansas Cyclone
- Duckpin
Dwight D. Eisenhower Pets
- Dog (named Heidi)
- Parakeet (named Gabby, buried in 1957 at the southwest corner of the Executive Mansion)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Personal Traits
- Height: 5 feet – 10-1/2 inches
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…freedom.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head-that’s assault, not leadership.
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Only two kinds of problems ever reach my desk, those marked urgent and those marked important – and I spend so much time on the urgent, I never get to the important.
I made two (mistakes while he was president), and they’re both sitting on the Supreme Court.
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. Both extremes – right and left – are in the gutters.
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Timeline – Family
- May 1, 1862 Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower (Mother) born in Mt. Sidney, Virginia.
- September 23, 1863 David Jacob Eisenhower (Father) born in Elizabethville, Pennsylvania.
- September 23, 1885 David Jacob Eisenhower marries Ida Elizabeth Stover (Mother) at the campus of Lane University in Lecompton, Kansas.
- November 11, 1886 Arthur Bradford Eisenhower (Brother) born in Hope Kansas.
- January 19, 1889 Edgar Newton Eisenhower (Brother) born in Hope, Kansas.
- October 14, 1890 Dwight David Eisenhower born in Denison, Texas.
- August 9, 1892 Roy Jacob Eisenhower (Brother) born in Abilene, Kansas.
- May, 12, 1894 Paul Dawson Eisenhower (Brother) born in Abilene, Kansas.
- March 16, 1895 Paul Dawson Eisenhower (Brother) dies in Abilene, Kansas.
- November 14, 1896 Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower (Wife) born in Boone, Iowa.
- February 1, 1898 Earl Dewey Eisenhower (Brother) born in Abilene, Kansas.
- September 15, 1899 Dr. Milton Stover Eisenhower (Brother) born in Abilene, Kansas.
- July 1, 1916 Dwight David Eisenhower marries Mamie Geneva Doud (Wife) at her parent’s house in Denver, Colorado.
- September 24, 1917 Doud Dwight “Icky” Eisenhower (Son) born in San Antonio, Texas.
- January 2, 1921 Doud Dwight “Icky” Eisenhower (Son) dies in Fort Meade, Maryland.
- August 3, 1922 John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (Son) is born in Denver, Colorado.
- March 10, 1942 David Jacob Eisenhower (Father) dies in Abilene, Kansas.
- June 17, 1942 Roy Jacob Eisenhower (Brother) dies in Jackson City, Kansas.
- September 11, 1946 Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower (Mother) dies in Abilene, Kansas.
- January 26, 1958 Arthur Bradford Eisenhower (Brother) dies in Kansas City, Missouri.
- December 18, 1968 Earl Dewey Eisenhower (Brother) dies in Scottsdale, Arizona.
- March 28, 1969 Dwight David Eisenhower dies in Washington DC.
- July 12, 1971 Edgar Newton Eisenhower (Brother) dies in Tacoma, Washington.
- November 1, 1979 Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower (Wife) dies in Washington DC.
- December 21, 2013 John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (Son) dies in Trappe, Maryland.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Links
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Birthplace
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Home – Gettysburg
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Presidential Library and boyhood home
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grave
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Wikipedia
Dwight D. Eisenhower Blogs
Eisenhower – Lunch with Cleveland’s Wife Frances - Forgetting what got you where you are at can almost be as bad as a famous general forgetting a famous former First Lady. 
Dwight Eisenhower- The Interstate Highway System - "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 KJV This future President believed an Indian attack was imminent. Usually the smoothed paved parts were once just gravel paths. The rest of the trip was uneventful, at least from what I remember of it. 
Dwight Eisenhower – His Mother-In-Law Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud - "And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.” Mark 5:32 KJV When the coroner arrived, Clint and the coroner wrapped the body in a blanket and carried the heavy woman down the stairs to the awaiting car. With so many people around, would he take just a moment out of his busy schedule to talk to her? I doubt it. I haven’t seen him since or at least I don’t think I’ve seen him since. 
Fun Presidential Facts – Dwight Eisenhower - Here are some fun facts and personal opinions about President Dwight Eisenhower 
Dwight Eisenhower – Almost Losing His Leg as a Boy - "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.” Exodus 17:6 KJV This President, when he was a young lad, had a very terrible temper. You might say he didn’t respond very well to stressful situations. There was also a group of very whiny, under appreciative walkers in the Bible who seemed to do the same thing over and over again, too. Walking may be a… 
List: What similiar trait do I have with Presidents Harding to LBJ - Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and LBJ. These are the twenty-ninth through thirty-sixth Presidents. This is a list of how I think I am like them. 
Dwight Eisenhower – Meeting Eisenhower - “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV There were so many life lessons that I did not understand as I was growing up. As I entered the house the telephone was ringing!! I was told, “the President is on a helicopter on the way to visit the lab. He should arrive in a few minutes!” 
Dwight Eisenhower – Election of 1952 - “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” I Corinthians 15:52 KJV Change is a funny thing. Since television was new, it needed someone to push the issue. 
Dwight Eisenhower – The Old General Eisenhower - “Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.” Psalm 71:9 KJV Most people have trouble with getting older at some point in their life. Personally, my hardest time with aging was when I hit.... 
Dwight Eisenhower’s – Growing Up Poor - I saw Jesus at McDonaldsGenesis 1:1 KJV Americans have a great advantage over the rest of the world, at least in one respect: we are allowed to dream. What’s more, we can act on those dreams. His father probably had that desire. His father was a common laborer, but with the inheritance from his father (our President’s grandfather) he bought and owned a little general store. One thing about American dreams, though, is they don’t always have a happy ending. That was the case with this little general store in Texas. It failed. So his father had to resort to…