Dwight David Eisenhower played a very important role in American history.
rose through the military ranks of the United States Army to command the Allied.
Forces during World War Two. Following a successful military career he was elected.
President of the United States and during his presidency he signed into law two .
significant transportation Acts.
Dwight David Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas and was the third.
of seven siblings. In 1892 his family moved to Abilene, Kansas. In 1909 Eisenhower.
graduated from Abilene High School. Dwight marred his wife Mamie Doud in 1916.
and had two children, Doud Dwight and John Sheldon Doud.
Dwight Eisenhower had a very interesting military career and was involved.
in many military actions. Ike was in the military academy at West Point in 1911.
and graduated in the year 1915. He then entered the Command and General Staff.
School and graduated first of his class of 245 students in 1926. He was assigned to.
the 19th Infantry at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. There he met and married Mamie Doud.
When Dwight Eisenhower went to World War Two his rank was Colonel and by the.
end of 1944-he rose in rank to five star General of the Army and Supreme Commander.
of Allied Forces in France. In 1951 he commanded the new NATO forces.
During Dwight David Eisenhowers" presidency he changed the United States.
like no other president before him. In 1959, President Eisenhower had the first.
meeting ever with a Russian communist leader. .
In 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid Highway Act. What.
influenced him to support this Act was his participation in a transcontinental military.
convoy. Another Act that the President signed was the Wiley-Dander Seaway Act.
The Wiley-Dander Seaway Act stated that the United States Government would.
work with the Canadian Government to develop a 114-mile navigation channel in.
the St. Lawrence River between the cities of Montreal and Ogdensburg, New York.
