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Future general and president born in Denison
On this day in 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower, general of the army and thirty-fourth president of the United States, was born in a two-story frame house in Denison, Texas. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas. Other presidents from the Lone Star State include Lyndon Johnson, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush.
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- EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID
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