Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14th, 1890 in Denison, Texas to David Jacob Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower. He was the third of seven sons and soon after his birth his family moved to Abilene, Kansas. He wasn't the brightest student as his teachers weren't very fond of him and he was average in all subjects. Eisenhower graduated from high school in 1909, and in 1911 Dwight landed an appointment at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, where he commissioned as a second lieutenant. Soon after he was stationed in Texas, he married a woman named Mamie Geneva Doud, soon having their first son, Doud Dwight, who eventually dies at the age of three. By 1920, as WWI was occurring, Eisenhower was promoted to major, after having volunteered for the Tank Corps, in the War Department's first transcontinental motor convoy, the previous year. In 1942, he was promoted to major general. Just months later, he became commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces and led Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa.
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