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Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas. His parents, David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Stover Eisenhower, were a deeply religious couple who belonged to a Protestant sect called the River Brethren. Dwight had two older brothers, Arthur and Edgar, and three younger ones, Roy, Earl, and Milton. As a baby, his family moved to Abilene, Kansas where Dwight’s father worked in a creamery. During that time, the sons raised and sold …

…He served from 1953 to 1961. During his presidency, many things occurred during his two terms including a revolution in the space age and the Cuban missile crisis (149, Richardson). Eisenhower was also the first president whose term was limited by the Constitution. Eisenhower left office in January 1961. On March 28, 1969, after a series of heart attacks, Eisenhower died of heart failure. He was buried in Abilene where a library with his papers opened to researchers soon afterwards (153, Richardson).