Dwight D EisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower was born in 1890 in Denison, Texas, and grew up in Abilene, Kansas. He served as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War II and, from 1953 to 1961, as the thirty-fourth president of the United Sttes. He died in Washington, DC, in 1969. Read More Read Less