Yes, the President of the United States is the Commander in Chief of the US Military
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the last former general to become president.
Dwight D Eisenhower was a general in the US army and also became president of the United states after WW2.
The bombing was not ordered by a General, but by the US President, Harry Truman.
Retired US Army General Shinseki is the new US Veterans Affairs Director.
No- Zachary Taylor was never the vice-president. In fact, he never held any political office before he was elected US President. He was famous because of his success as an US army general in the Mexican War.
General of the Army Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the last former general to become president.
Ulysses S. Grant
George Washington
Ulysses S. Grant was a prominent general of the United States Army. In 1868 he was elected US President as a Republican.
General-in-Chief of the US Army.
Senator John James Ingalls and President Dwight Eisenhower, General of the Army, US Army.
President Truman fired General Douglas Macarthur.
General Sherman remained in the army after the US Civil War. In March of 1869, President US Grant promoted Sherman to the US general in chief.
He was a general in the US Army and a hero of the Mexican-American War.
In September of 1941, General Krueger, commander of the US Third Army had a new chief of staff. He was the newly promoted Brigadier General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower's rise within the army ranks was seen as almost a miracle. Later, of course he became the 34th US president in 1953.