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Douglas MacArthur, the password of the high-ranking military figure, Arthur MacArthur, was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on twenty-sixth January, 1880. Although previously a poor scholar, in 1903 MacArthur graduated kickoff in his 93-man class, at West Point Military Academy. Commissioned in the corps of the Engineers, MacArthur was move by the United States Army to the Philippines and by 1904 had been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Later that year he joined his father who was serving in Far East before becoming aide-de-camp to President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.MacArthur was assigned to general staff duty with the contend De expoundment and was an official observer with the Vera Cruz Expedition. On the advice of General Leonard Wood, MacArthur was promoted to major.In the First World War MacArthur commanded the 42nd Division on the Western Front and was decorated 13 times and cited seven additional times for bravery. Promoted the the rank of brigadier in August, 19 18, 3 months later he became the youngest divisional commander in France. subsequently the war MacArthur returned to the United States where he became brigadier general and the youngest ever superintendent of West Point in its 117 year history. Over the future(a) three years he doubled its size and modernized the curriculum.In 1922 MacArthur was sent to the Philippines where he commanded the newly established Military District of Manila. At the duration of forty-three MacArthur became the armys youngest general and in 1928 was appointed president of the American surpassing Committee.MacArthur was appointed chief of staff of the US Army in 1930. one time again he was the youngest man to hold the office and over the next few years attempted to modernize Americas army of 135,000 men. MacArthur developed rightist political views and at one meeting argued that Pacifism and its bedfellow, Communism, are both about us. Day by day this cancer eats deeper into the physical structure politic. In June 1932, MacArthur, controversially used tanks, four troops of cavalry with haggard sabers, and infantry with fixed bayonets, on the Bonus Army in Washington. He justified his attack on former members of the United States Army by claiming that the country was on the verge of a communist revolution. Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Patton also took part in this operation. The radical journalist, Drew Pearson, was highly critical of MacArthurs actions. MacArthurs ex-wife, Louise Cromwell, provided Pearson with confidential discipline about her former husband.