Born in Denison, Texas in 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower grew up in Abilene, Kansas. A West Point graduate and career military man, he served under Generals Pershing, MacArthur and Krueger and was Supreme Commander of troops invading France on D-Day, 1944. Elected President of the United States in 1952, Eisenhower positioned the U.S. as a global nuclear power, ended the Korean War stalemate, encouraged a free-enterprise economy and signed the Federal Aid Highway Act to create the Interstate system.