1. John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, diplomat, and military historian.
10 Facts About John Eisenhower
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John Eisenhower was the second son of President Dwight D Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.
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From 1969 to 1971, Eisenhower served as United States Ambassador to Belgium during the administration of President Richard Nixon, who was previously his father's vice president and father-in-law to Eisenhower's son David.
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John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was born on August 3,1922, at Denver General Hospital in Denver, Colorado, to future US President and United States Army General of the Army Dwight D Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie; he was their second child.
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John Eisenhower graduated from the Army Command and General Staff College in 1955.
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John Eisenhower wrote the forewords to Borrowed Soldiers, by Mitchell Yockelson of the US National Archives, and to Kenneth W Rendell's Politics, War and Personality: 50 Iconic Documents of World War II.
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John Eisenhower's burial was at West Point Cemetery on the grounds of the United States Military Academy.
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John Eisenhower married Barbara Jean Thompson on June 10,1947, only a few days before her twenty-first birthday.
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John Eisenhower died on September 19,2014, in Gladwyne, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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John Eisenhower lived in Trappe, Maryland, after moving there from Kimberton, Pennsylvania.