Dwight D. Eisenhower

=== Election of 1956 ===
{{Main|1956 United States presidential election}}
[[File:ElectoralCollege1956.svg|right|thumb|upright=1.25|1956 electoral vote results]]
In the United States presidential election of 1956, Eisenhower, the popular incumbent, was re-elected. The election was a re-match of 1952, as his opponent in 1956 was Stevenson, a former Illinois governor, whom Eisenhower had defeated four years earlier. Compared to the 1952 election, Eisenhower gained [[Kentucky]], [[Louisiana]], and [[West Virginia]] from Stevenson, while losing [[Missouri]]. His voters were less likely to bring up his leadership record. Instead what stood out this time "was the response to personal qualities— to his sincerity, his integrity and sense of duty, his virtue as a family man, his religious devotion, and his sheer likeableness."<ref>{{cite book|first1=Angus|last1=Campbell|first2=Philip L.|last2=Converse|first3=Warren E.|last3=Miller|first4=Donald E.|last4=Stokes|title=The American Voter|url={{GBurl|id=JeYUrs_GOcMC|p=56}}|year=1960|page=56|publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0226092546}}</ref>