Eisenhower, Dwight D.

10/14/1890

Denison, Texas

1918- Commander of tank training center near Gettysburg
1922-24 Executive officer of Camp Gaillard in Panama Canal Zone
1926-Graduated from Command and General Staff School in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas; 1st in class of 275 men.
1935- went with Gen. Douglas MacArthur to Phillipines as his aide, organized Phillipine Military Academy.
1941- promoted to Brigadier General and appointed to War Plans Division.
1942- during WWII: General of American forces in Europe; commander of North African invasion; Supreme Commander of Allied Invasion of Normandy.
1948-served as president of Columbia University
1950-appointed supreme commander of NATO
1952-resigned from Army to work for nomination as president; elected.
1953-proposed "Atoms for Peace" plan
1954-formed Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

General, President of the United States

1948 Crusade in Europe

Mamie Geneva Doud, m. 1916

Dwight David Jr.
John Sheldon Doud

American