Introduction Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower was born October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. He became the thirty-fourth president of the United States at the age of sixty-two. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. When he graduated in 1915, he became second lieutenant. The day of his wedding (July 1, 1916), he was promoted to first lieutenant. During World War I, Eisenhower was stationed in Gettysburg and ran a tank training center at Camp Colt. In 1920, he was promoted to major. In 1921, Eisenhower’s firstborn son died from scarlet fever. Three years later, Dwight applied and was accepted into the Command and General Staff School in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1926, he graduated the academy first in his class. Under …show more content…
He was promoted to the five-star rank in December of 1944. He was in charge of the U.S. Occupied Zone in 1945. Later, he was made U.S. Army Chief of Staff. He was elected and held his position as the president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1950. He resigned and accepted the offer to become First Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Republican leaders were extremely impressed by his long military career and urged him to consider running for the presidency of the United States. He ran and won 442 electoral votes and around fifty-five percent of the popular vote, while his opponent, Adlai Stevenson, won 89 electoral votes and about forty-four percent of the popular vote. He was re-elected in 1956 with 457 out of the 530 electoral votes and about fifty-eight percent of the popular vote.
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Eisenhower’s personality is classified as Passive-Negative, or withdrawn, according to James David Barber’s The Presidential Character. A withdrawn president doesn’t necessarily enjoy his duties as president or even politics in general. They react and govern as a sense of duty. They rule for the betterment of the people. Eisenhower is most likely categorized as this because he had an extensive and very thorough military training and service. Even though Eisenhower wasn’t the most charismatic president, he received a majority of the public’s favor throughout his presidential terms. Even though a president with this type of personality is not typically perceived as the best, George Washington (who was also Passive-Negative) is considered as one of the best, if not the best, President of the United