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The Eisenhowers had two sons, Doud Dwight "Icky" Eisenhower, and John Eisenhower. He is the most recently serving U.S. president (as of 2024) to have had only sons. Five of his successors – L. Johnson, Nixon, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Obama – had only daughters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Deniston, Texas as the third of his parents’ seven sons. His father, David Jacob Eisenhower, and mother, Ida Elizabeth Eisenhower, were of German ancestry. He did his schooling from Abiliene High School, in Kansas, and graduated in 1909.
Eisenhower remained active in public life until ill health restricted his activities in the final year before his death in March 1969. But during their last eight years together, Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower at last had all the time they desired for family life.
On September 24, 1917, Dwight Dwight Eisenhower was born in San Antonio, Texas. He was Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower’s first child. He was given the names “Doud” and “Dwight” in honor of his father and his mother, whose maiden name was Doud.
David Jacob Eisenhower, Eisenhower's father, was a college-educated engineer, despite his own father's urging to stay on the family farm. Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower , of predominantly German Protestant ancestry, moved to Kansas from Virginia.
Dwight Eisenhower’s parents, David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower, moved their family from Denison, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas, where their forebears had settled in a Mennonite colony.
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Jun 11, 2014 · The first child born to Mamie and Dwight Eisenhower was named Doud Dwight. On D-Day 1944, he would have been 26 years old — of prime age to storm the Normandy beaches.
