Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. He was the World War II general who became president as a Republican. Harry S. Truman was his predecessor (1945-1953), while Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) and Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977) served later in the 1960s and 1970s respectively.