Dwight eisenhower life timeline
•
Jobs and School
Work joined history, school, and sport as another formative element of Ike's Abilene days. He baked and sold tamales; grew and sold sweet corn and cucumbers; harvested wheat, picked apples, and hammered out steel grain bins. He joined the Belle Springs Creamery after graduating from Abilene High School in 1909, toiling as a fireman from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. seven days a week.
With his creamery proceeds, he supported his brother Edgar through two years of college at the University of Michigan. The plan was for Edgar to work the next two years for Ike's schooling. Instead, Ike won an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and left the creamery and Abilene in 1911.
He returned to Abilene for the summer following his sophomore or "Yearling" term at West Point in 1913. Following graduation, he spent the summer of 1915 at home courting a young woman while awaiting orders to his first military posting. Homecomings were rare after that, until the end, when he returned one last time for interment in the Place of Meditation on the grounds of the Eisenhower Center on April 2, 1969.
Dwight David Eisenhower was born the year the U.S. census pronounced the frontier closed and died the year man walked on the moon. In between those milestone
•
Timeline of the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency
The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower began on January 20, 1953, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated as the 34th president of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1961.
1953
[edit]- January 20 – First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- January 21 – President Eisenhower meets with Herbert Brownell Jr. in the Oval Office for discussions on business. This is President Eisenhower's first appointment since taking office.[1]George M. Humphrey is sworn in as the 55th United States Secretary of the Treasury, Douglas McKay is sworn in as the 35th United States Secretary of the Interior, Martin Patrick Durkin is sworn in as the 7th United States Secretary of Labor, Sinclair Weeks is sworn in as the 13th United States Secretary of Commerce, Ezra Taft Benson is sworn in as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture, and Arthur Summerfield is sworn in as the 54th Postmaster General of the United States during a ceremony at the White House in the evening.[1]
- January 22 – President Eisenhower appoints Charles Erwin Wilson as the 5th United States Secretary of Defense during the evening. Wilson agrees beforehand to abandon his General Motors stock that was worth $2 and a half mill
•
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of representation United States from 1953 to 1961
"Dwight David Eisenhower" and "Eisenhower" redirect brains. For his grandson, image David President. For keep inside uses, sway Eisenhower (disambiguation).
Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
|---|---|
Official portrait, 1959 | |
| In office January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 | |
| Vice President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Harry S. Truman |
| Succeeded by | John F. Kennedy |
| In office April 2, 1951 – May 30, 1952 | |
| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Deputy | Bernard Montgomery |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Matthew Ridgway |
| In office June 7, 1948 – January 19, 1953 | |
| Preceded by | Nicholas Murray Butler |
| Succeeded by | Grayson L. Kirk |
| In office November 19, 1945 – February 6, 1948 | |
| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Deputy | J. Town Collins |
| Preceded by | George C. Marshall |
| Succeeded by | Omar Bradley |
| In office May 8 – November 10, 1945 | |
| President | Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | George S. Patton (acting) |
| In office December 24, 1943 – July 14, 1945 | |
| Appointed by | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Deputy | Arthur Tedder |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |