Presidency of Dwight Eisenhower
| 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 he was inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican, took office as 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 in a landslide again, winning a second term in office. He was succeeded in office by Democrat John F. Kennedy after the 1960 election.
A self-described "progressive conservative", Eisenhower was able to secure several victories in Congress, even though Democrats held the majority in both the House and the Senate during all but the first two years of his presidency. Eisenhower continued New Deal programs and expanded Social Security. He also spurred development of the Interstate Highway System in 1956, and after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the establishment of NASA, with a distinctly civilian (rather than military) mandate. In the Suez Crisis, Eisenhower convinced Britain and France to end their occupation of the Suez Canal. Eisenhower signed the first significant civil rights bills of the 20th century, and he sent federal troops to Arkansas to enforce a court ruling mandating school desegregation.
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