Dwight D. Eisenhower, one year his junior, served in various roles in the United States Army before becoming president in 1953.
Earl D. Eisenhower, nine years his junior, served in the Illinois House of Representatives.
Edgar and Dwight had planned after high school to trade off working a year each at a creamery to pay for the other's college, but that plan ended after Dwight was admitted into West Point.
[2][3] He was also the director of the St. Regis Paper Company, the Puget Sound National Bank (now KeyBank), and the Harmon FS Manufacturing Co. Beginning in 1940, Eisenhower lived in a modest brick home on the west side of American Lake in Lakewood, Washington.
[5] Eisenhower divorced her in 1967, after sixteen years of marriage, asserting that she caused "a burdensome home life".