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 of the time because of the conflicts around the world. He was mainly influenced from stories of his father instead of real-life experiences with him. However he did say that by watching his father and listening to his mother, he learned that a MacArthur is always in charge.…
