Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower was president of Columbia before becoming US President in 1952. He was mostly in absentia during his tenure, dealing with less important matters like the Korean War, but he did manage to turn the stretch of 116th Street running through campus into the mostly traffic-free College Walk.

Less successfully, he proposed a "Citizenship Center," including military recruitment offices and a rifle range where students could learn to shoot Soviets, for Ferris Booth Hall, the former student center.

Once, it was rumored that SIPA would be named after him.