Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, and grew up in Abilene, Kansas, one of six sons in a family of modest means. He graduated from West Point in 1915. He trained tank troops in World War I but did not go overseas, and in the years between the wars he served as a staff officer under Generals Pershing and MacArthur, gaining a reputation for organization. In 1942 he commanded the Allied landings in North Africa, then the invasions of Sicily and Italy. As Supreme Allied Commander, he directed the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history, and led the Allied armies across France into Germany until its surrender in May 1945. After the war he served as Army chief of staff, president of Columbia University, and first commander of NATO. Elected president in 1952 and 1956, he ended the Korean War, began the Interstate Highway System, and sent troops to Little Rock to enforce school integration. In his farewell address he warned of a military-industrial complex. He died in 1969.

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Faith: His mother joined the Bible Students (later Jehovah's Witnesses); he called himself deeply religious and was baptized in the Presbyterian Church in 1953. Source: Wikipedia