Submitted by ke4ktza on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 09:21
Dwight David Eisenhower
34th President of the United States
(January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961)
Nickname: "Ike"
Born: October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas
Died: March 28, 1969, in Washington, D.C.
Father: David Jacob Eisenhower
Mother: Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower
Married: Mary "Mamie" Geneva Doud (1896-1979), on July 1, 1916
Children: Doud Dwight Eisenhower (1917-21); John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (1923- )
Religion: Presbyterian
Education: Graduated from U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. (1915)
Occupation: Soldier
Political Party: Republican
Other Government Positions:
- None
Presidential Salary: $100,000/year + $50,000 expense account
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon (1953-61)
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- John Foster Dulles (1953-59)
- Christian A. Herter (1959-61)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- George M. Humphrey (1953-57)
- Robert B. Anderson (1957-61)
- Secretary of Defense
- Charles E. Wilson (1953-57)
- Neil H. McElroy (1957-59)
- Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (1960-61)
- Attorney General
- Herbert Brownell, Jr. (1953-57)
- William P. Rogers (1957-61)
- Postmaster General
- Arthur E. Summerfield (1953-61)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Douglas J. McKay (1953-56)
- Frederick A. Seaton (1956-61)
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Ezra Taft Benson (1953-61)
- Secretary of Commerce
- Sinclair Weeks (1953-58)
- Lewis Strauss (1958-59)
- Frederick H. Mueller (1959-60)
- Secretary of Labor
- Martin P. Durkin (1953)
- James P. Mitchell (1953-61)
- Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Oveta Culp Hobby (1953-55)
- Marion B. Folsom (1955-58)
- Arthur S. Flemming (1958-61)