Here is the biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Dwight David Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover. He was the third of seven sons of German descent.
Eisenhower studied at the West Point Military Academy from 1911-1915, where he served with the infantry, became the #3 leader of the tank corps, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by the end of the First World War.
After the war, he served in the Panama Canal Zone as executive officer to General Fox Conner from 1922-1924, and then studied at the Command and General Staff College in Kansas from 1925-1926. He served as executive officer to Gen. George V. Moseley, Assistant Secretary of War, in Washington, DC from 1928-1933.
Eisenhower was chief military aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur from 1933-1935, and accompanied MacArthur to the Philippines in 1935, serving as assistant military adviser to the Philippine government until 1939.
In 1941, he was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to the General Staff, where he gradually rose to Assistant Chief of Staff under the Chief of Staff, Gen. George C. Marshall. He was appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces of the North African Theater of Operations in 1942, and oversaw the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy in 1943.
Eisenhower planned and carried out the Allied landings in Normandy, France, and the invasion of Germany, including Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne operation in history. He was in charge of the Allied troops that liberated Paris in 1944 and led the Allied forces that crossed into Germany in 1945.
After the war, Eisenhower was made the Military Governor of the US Occupied Zone in Germany, based in Frankfurt, and ordered the detailed search, documentation, photographing, and widespread dissemination of what went on in the Nazi death camps.
Eisenhower won the 1952 US presidential elections and served as President from 1953-1960, becoming the first and only army general to serve as President in the 20th Century. He ended the Korean War and offered peaceful co-existence with the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin in 1953.
Domestically, Eisenhower began the modernization and integration of American roads into the interstate highway system, modeled after the autobahn, which he saw in Germany. He lived in retirement on his farm in Gettysburg, where he wrote his memoirs, and died on March 28, 1969, at the age of 78.
