A presidential election was held in the United States on November 4, 1952. The Republican ticket of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Richard Nixon defeated the Democratic ticket of Illinois Go
Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop
Adlai Stevenson close up
Harry S. Truman, the incumbent president in 1952, whose second and only full term expired at noon on January 20, 1953
Eisenhower/Nixon campaign poster
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. In his previous military career, he led the Allied Expeditionary Force during the Second World War
1952 United States presidential election
…A presidential election was held in the United States on November 4, 1952. The Republican ticket of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Richard Nixon defeated the Democratic ticket of Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II and Senator John Sparkman in a landslide victory…
Official portrait, 1959
The Eisenhower family home in Abilene, Kansas
Eisenhower (far right) with friends William Stuhler, Major Brett, and Paul V. Robinson in 1919, four years after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point
The meeting of War Plans Division, War Department General Staff in 1942