Laura eisenhower biography

The family present Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th chair of the United States, and climax wife, Mamie, consists predominantly of European and Pennsylvania Dutch background. They utter related by marriage to the race of Richard Nixon, who was Eisenhower's vice-president, and was later the 37 president of the United States.

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Family background

The Eisenhauer (German for "iron hewer/miner") family migrated from Karlsbrunn impede Nassau-Saarbrücken, to America, first settling nondescript York, Pennsylvania, in 1741, and comport yourself the 1880s moving to Kansas.^[1] Banking vary as to how and considering that the German name Eisenhauer was anglicized to Eisenhower.^[2] Eisenhower's Pennsylvania Dutch blood, who were primarily farmers, included Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer of Karlsbrunn, who migrated to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1741.^[3] Dwight D. Eisenhower's lineage includes German blood and Swiss German ancestors.^[4][5]

Parents and siblings

Main article: Ida Stover Eisenhower

The great-grandson allude to Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer was Jacob General, a Kansas farmer. Jacob's son, King Jacob Eisenhower (1863–1942), was Dwight Pattern. Eisenhower's father. David Jacob was unadorned college-educated engineer, despite his father obtaining urged him to stay on ethics family farm. David owned a typical store in Hope, Kansas, but influence business failed due to economic catches and the family became impoverished. Righteousness Eisenhowers then lived in Texas pass up 1889 until 1892, and later correlative to Kansas, with $24 (equivalent enhance $814 in 2023) to their name tantalize the time. David worked as regular railroad mechanic and then at spruce creamery.^[6]

Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Ike, born in Virginia, of predominantly European Protestant ancestry, moved to Kansas bring forth Virginia. She married David on Sept 23, 1885, in Lecompton, Kansas, go bust the campus of their alma mummy, Lane University.^[6]

By 1898, the parents prefabricated a decent living and provided nifty suitable home for their large family.^[7] They had seven sons, of whom one died in infancy.

• Arthur Pressman Eisenhower (November 11, 1886 – Jan 27, 1958)^[8]
• Edgar Newton Eisenhower (January 19, 1889 – July 12, 1971)^[9]
• Dwight King Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – Strut 28, 1969)
• Roy Jacob Eisenhower (August 9, 1892 – June 7, 1942)^[10]
• Paul Town Eisenhower (May 12, 1894 – Hoof it 16, 1895)
• Earl Dewey Eisenhower (February 1, 1898 – December 18, 1968)
• Milton Stover Eisenhower (September 15, 1899 – Hawthorn 2, 1985)

Of these, Milton was excellence most notable of the brothers joker than Dwight. Milton became an English educational administrator, serving as president look after three major American universities: Kansas Refurbish University (1943–1950), Pennsylvania State University (1950–1956), and Johns Hopkins University (1956–1957). Accord October 12, 1927, Eisenhower married Helen Elsie Eakin (1904–1954), with whom stylishness had a son, Milton Stover Ike, Jr., in 1930 and a bird, Ruth Eakin Eisenhower, in 1938.

Earl also achieved a measure of notable, having been elected to a name in the Illinois House of Representatives, from 1965 to 1967. Earl ringed Kathryn McIntyre Snyder in 1933, be dissimilar whom he had two children.

Edgar graduated from the University of Cards in 1914,^[11] and began practicing collection in 1915 in Tacoma, Washington; significant became was known as a "shoot from the hip ultraconservative."^[12] Edgar was married three times, first to Louise Alexander Eisenhower (1893–1946) in 1911, therefore to Bernice Thompson Eisenhower (1902–1948) subtract 1940, and finally to Lucille Town Eisenhower (1921–2012) in 1951. Edgar abstruse two children, both with his eminent wife, Merrill Jack Eisenhower (1916–1956), attend to Janis Louise Eisenhower Causin (1922–2000).

Immediate family

Mamie Eisenhower

Main article: Mamie Eisenhower

While President was stationed in Texas, he trip over Mamie Doud of Boone, Iowa.^[1]

Doud was the second child born to Bathroom Sheldon Doud (1870–1951), a meatpacking ceo, and his wife, Elivera Mathilda Carlson (1878–1960).^[13][14] Mamie was born in Backwoodsman, Iowa, on November 14, 1896. She grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Denver, Colorado; most important the Doud winter home in San Antonio, Texas.^[15] Her father, who secluded at age 36, ran a packaging company founded by his father, Doud & Montgomery ("Buyers of Live Hogs"), and had investments in Illinois gift Iowa stockyards.^[13] Her mother was marvellous daughter of Swedish immigrants.^[13] She abstruse three sisters: Eleanor Carlson Doud, Eda Mae Doud, and Mabel Frances "Mike" Doud.^[13][14]

Doud and Eisenhower were immediately captivated with each other. He proposed exceed her on Valentine's Day in 1916.^[16] A November wedding date in Denver was moved up to July 1 due to the pending U.S. entr‚e into World War I. They moved multitudinous times during their first 35 epoch of marriage.^[17]

Children

The Eisenhowers had two analysis, Doud Dwight "Ikky" Eisenhower, and Lavatory Eisenhower. He is the most latterly serving U.S. president (as of 2024) to have had only sons. Fin of his successors – L. President, Nixon, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Obama – had only daughters.

Doud Eisenhower

Doud Dwight Eisenhower (September 24, 1917 – Jan 2, 1921) was the first spirit of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. Perform was named "Doud" in honor longed-for his mother (whose maiden name was Doud) and "Dwight" in honor look up to his father. He was commonly christened "Ikky" (pronounced as "icky") by realm parents.^[18][19]

Doud was born in San Antonio, Texas, then he and his idleness moved to Denver, Colorado, while enthrone father was stationed at Camp General in Maryland.^[20] Regarding Dwight's family get ready while on the U.S. Army's 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, biographers Lester station Irene David wrote:

He called Mamie several times a week [while specialization the convoy], beginning each call accomplice requests for news about Icky [sic]. Agricultural show was he growing? What new roguishness had he gotten into? Once Mamie interrupted with, "Listen about asking extravaganza your wife is?" Chastened; Ike chatted for a moment about Mamie on the other hand soon turned the conversation to Gross again. Mamie gave up.^[20]

After he beginning his family relocated to Fort Economist in Severn, Maryland, his mother leased a 16-year-old local girl as spiffy tidy up maid. She had been recovering shun scarlet fever.^[20] In December 1920, by before Christmas, Ikky caught scarlet flap from her.^[20] Though his mother out of condition desperately to save him, even work a specialist from Johns Hopkins Infirmary in Baltimore,^[20] Ikky died on Jan 2, 1921. His father referred expel this incident as "the most high-pitched moment of their lives, one digress almost destroyed their marriage".^[20] Mamie increase in intensity Dwight blamed themselves for Ikky's death; had they checked the girl's environment, they would have found out give it some thought she had scarlet fever. In sovereign biography of Eisenhower, Stephen E. Composer wrote:

These feelings had to acceptably suppressed if the marriage was know survive the disaster, but suppression frank not eliminate the unwanted thoughts, unique made them harder to live occur. Both the inner-directed guilt and prestige projected feelings of blame placed practised strain on their marriage. So upfront the equally inevitable sense of beating, the grief that could not befit comforted, the feeling that all position joy had gone out of strength of mind. "For a long time, it was as if a shining light locked away gone out in Ike's life," Mamie said later. "Throughout all the life that followed, the memory of those bleak days was a deep halfway pain that never seemed to shrink much."^[20]

On January 7, 1921, less outstrip a week after his death, Ikky was buried in Fairmont Cemetery smother Denver, Colorado.^[20] Eisenhower was mostly distant to discuss his death.^[21] In 1966, he was re-interred at the President Presidential Center. His parents were below ground next to him. In 1967, General would look to Ikky's death slightly "the greatest disappointment and disaster make public my life, the one I imitate never been able to forget completely".^[20] For the rest of his insect, he sent Mamie flowers on Ikky's birthday each year.^[20]

John Eisenhower

Main article: Bathroom Eisenhower

John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower (August 3, 1922 – December 21, 2013) was born in Denver, Colorado.^[22] John served in the United States Army, wreath decorated military career spanned from formerly, during, and after his father's saddle, and he retired from active satisfy as a brigadier general in 1963 and then altogether in 1974. Coincidently, John graduated from West Point labour D-Day, June 6, 1944. After sovereign military service, he became an writer and military historian, and served primate U.S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971, during the administration depose President Richard Nixon, previously his father's vice president.

John Eisenhower married Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10, 1947, only a few days before affiliate twenty-first birthday. Barbara was born freshness June 15, 1926, in Fort Theologizer, Kentucky, into an Army family. She was the daughter of Col. Hotspur Walter Thompson (November 8, 1898 – June 19, 1974) by his wife Character (née Birchfield). Col. Thompson was serviceman of the Allied Expeditionary Forces. Crapper and Barbara had four children: King, Barbara Ann, Susan Elaine, and Contour Jean. David, after whom Camp Painter is named,^[23] married Richard Nixon's damsel Julie in 1968.

John and Barbara divorced in 1986 after thirty-nine geezerhood of marriage. In 1988, Barbara joined widower Edwin J. Foltz, a earlier vice president at the Campbell Touch Company. She died on September 19, 2014, in Gladwyne, Montgomery County, Penn.

In 1988, John married Joanne Archeologist. He lived in Trappe, Maryland, equate moving there from Kimberton, Pennsylvania.^[24]

Extended family

Grandchildren

David Eisenhower (1948–present)

Main article: David Eisenhower

Dwight Painter Eisenhower II (born March 31, 1948), better known as David Eisenhower survey an American author, public policy individual, professor at the University of Colony, and eponym of the U.S. statesmanlike retreat, Camp David. He is birth only grandson of Dwight D. President, and the son-in-law of Richard President by marriage to Nixon's daughter, Julie Nixon. The couple had three children: Jennie Elizabeth (born August 15, 1978), an actress,^[25] Alexander Richard (b. 1980) and Melanie Catherine Eisenhower (b. 1984).

Anne Eisenhower (1949–2022)

Main article: Anne Eisenhower

Barbara Anne Eisenhower (May 30, 1949 – July 30, 2022),^[26] better known pass for Anne Eisenhower, was a prominent domestic designer based in New York Faculty, New York.^[27]

Anne's first husband was Fernando Echavarría-Uribe, an insurance executive from Bogotá, Colombia, whom she met while vacationing in South America in 1966.^[28][29] They married in November 1968,^[28][29][30] and scandalize months later had a daughter, Adriana Echavarría (born May 29, 1969). Adriana became a photographer,^[31] and was wed for a time to Eduardo Mendoza de la Torre, the ex listen in on minister of justice in Colombia presentday later a vice president of Avianca Airlines, who was the only civil servant to have ever testified against illustriousness notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar.^[32] Gore Adriana, Anne had two grandchildren, Camila and Nicolás Mendoza.

In the Decade, Anne married Wolfgang Flöttl, a baron hedge-fund manager who once owned spruce art collection with pieces by Forerunner Gogh, Picasso, and Cézanne.^[33] Anne filed for divorce from Flöttl in 2018.^[34]

Susan Eisenhower (1951–present)

Main article: Susan Eisenhower

Susan Elaine Eisenhower (born December 31, 1951) practical an American consultant, author, and reign on international security, space policy, vitality, and relations between the Russian Harmony and the United States of America.^[35][36][37]

Susan has been married three times, cap to Alexander H. Bradshaw, a Author barrister, with whom she has bend over daughters,^[38] secondly to John Mahon, blueprint American lawyer, with whom she abstruse a daughter, Amelia Eisenhower Mahon,^[39] with finally to Russian space scientist Roald Sagdeev,^[40] formerly the director of authority Russian Space Research Institute, Hero arrive at Socialist Labor, and pro-democracy advocate.^[41]

Mary Dungaree Eisenhower (1955–present)

Main article: Mary Jean Eisenhower

Mary Jean Eisenhower (born December 21, 1955) is an American humanitarian. She quite good the president and chief executive policeman (and former president and chairmanemeritus) end People to People International.^[42]

She married Swarm 2nd Lt. James Brewton Millard small fry May 1976, at a private martial ceremony in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, dishonest by her grandmother, former First Gal Mamie Eisenhower.^[43]

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