Douglas MacArthur was born into the military on January 26, 1880 in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father Arthur MacArthur earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War for leading an assault up Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, and was a military governor of the Philippines. When Arthur came back from the Philippines where he helped defeat the Spanish, he watched his son, Douglas MacArthur, graduate first in the class of 1903. His father was gone almost all …showed first 75 words of 665 total…

…showed last 75 words of 665 total…problem by sending troops into Korea. MacArthur wanted to expand the limited war policy against China. A Republican congressman criticized the policy of his civilian and military superiors and wanted a change. President Harry S. Truman relieved him of duty in April of 1951 because of this action. MacArthur returned home to a hero's welcome. Douglas MacArthur then faded away from the public eye and lived out his life in New York where he died in 1964.