My report concerns Douglass MacArthur. I chose to do my report on Mr. MacArthur because he was a very important person in many wars. I chose to do my report on MacArthur because I wanted to learn more about his contributions to our nation. Douglas MacArthur was one of three children of Arthur MacArthur and Mary Pinkney. Arthur was a Lieutenant General and was also awarded a Medal of Honor during the American Civil War. Douglas was born on January 26, 1880 in Little Rock Arkansas. He spent his youth in New Mexico, then the family moved to Kansas and then to Washington D.C., where his father took a job in the Department of Defense. Douglas received his education from an Episcopalian school and the West Texas Military Academy. “In June 1899 he entered West Point Military Academy and graduated valedictorian in 1903.” [Curtin1]In 1904 MacArthur became a lieutenant and was his father's aide-de-camp in Japan. In 1906 he served as aide-de-camp to President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1913 "he was appointed to the General Staff under President Woodrow Wilson." [Curtin 2] By 1917 MacArthur had earned the rank of major. MacArthur helped organize the "Rainbow Division". He was the division's chief of staff. “In 1918 he was promoted to brigadier general and became commander of the 84th Infantry Brigade of the Rainbow Division.” [Curtin 3] His numerous exploits during the war earned him numerous awards and honors. He was named the youngest two-star general in the U.S. Army. In 1922 MacArthur married Louise Crowell Brooks MacArthur, a divorcee, to whom he remained married for six years. This marriage ended in divorce in 1929. MacArthur's mother lived with him for many years after the divorce. After the European War he became superintendent of West Point and was the youngest person to hold this position. He continued to do so until 1922. He served a second tour of duty in the Philippines before returning to the United States in January 1925 and being appointed commander of the 3rd Corps. He then returned to the Philippines as department commander. When MacArthur returned to the United States in 1930, he was appointed Army Chief of Staff by President Herbert Hoover. When he was 50, he was made a full general. In 1932 MacArthur led the Army against a group of 15,000 unarmed World War I veterans who were "encamped in Washington to petition Congress for early payment of their service bonuses"..