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Eisenhower Administration

The Eisenhower Cabinet
Office Name Term
President Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953–1961
Vice President Richard Nixon 1953–1961
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles 1953–1959
Christian A. Herter 1959–1961
Secretary of Treasury George M. Humphrey 1953–1957
Robert B. Anderson 1957–1961
Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson 1953–1957
Neil H. McElroy 1957–1959
Thomas S. Gates Jr. 1959–1961
Attorney General Herbert Brownell 1953–1957
William P. Rogers 1957–1961
Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield 1953–1961
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay 1953–1956
Fred A. Seaton 1956–1961
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson 1953–1961
Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks 1953–1958
Lewis L. Strauss 1958–1959
Frederick H. Mueller 1959–1961
Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin 1953
James P. Mitchell 1953–1961
Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare
Oveta Culp Hobby 1953–1955
Marion B. Folsom 1955–1958
Arthur S. Flemming 1958–1961

The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower began on January 20, 1953 at noon Eastern Standard Time, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican, took office as the 34th United States president following a landslide win over Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election. This victory upended the New Deal Coalition that had kept the presidency in the hands of the Democratic Party for 20 years. Four years later, in the 1956 presidential election, he defeated Stevenson again, winning a second term in office. Eisenhower was the first U.S. president to be constitutionally limited to two terms in office under the 22nd Amendment. He was succeeded in office by Democrat John F. Kennedy.

The nation experienced considerable economic prosperity during the Eisenhower Presidency, except for a sharp recession in 1958–59. It was also, following the conclusion of the Korean War in the summer of 1953, at peace, even as the world was polarized by the Cold War. The President's main goals in office were to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. A self-described "progressive conservative", he continued New Deal program agencies and expanded Social Security. He also spurred development of the Interstate Highway System, and after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, authorized the establishment of NASA.


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