Date of Birth: January 26, 1880
Place of Birth: Little Rock Barracks, Little Rock, Arkansas
Date of Death: April 5, 1964
Place of Death: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Ethnicity: Scottish, English, distant Welsh
Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general. He was field marshal of the Philippine Army, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during the 1930s, and had a prominent role in the Pacific front during WWII.
He was a candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination for President of the United States in 1944, 1948, and 1952.
Douglas was the son of Mary Pinckney/Pinkney “Pinkie” (Hardy) and Arthur MacArthur, a U.S. Army general.
Douglas’s paternal grandfather was Arthur MacArthur Sr. (the son of Arthur MacArthur and Sarah MacArthur). Douglas’s grandfather Arthur was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to Uxbridge, Massachusetts, U.S., in 1828; Douglas’s grandfather was Governor of Wisconsin, in 1856, and a Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, from 1870 to 1887. Douglas’s great-grandfather John was the son of John MacArthur. Sarah was born in Dumbarton, the daughter of John MacArthur.
Douglas’s paternal grandmother was Aurelia Belcher (the daughter of Benjamin Barney Belcher and Olive Keep). Benjamin was the son of Benjamin Belcher and Sarah “Sally” Barney. Olive was the daughter of John Keep and Elizabeth Smith.
Douglas’s maternal grandparents were Thomas Asbury Hardy (the son of The Rev. Edward Hardy and Lydia Jarvis) and Elizabeth Margaret Pierce (the daughter of David Pierce). The Rev. Edward was the son of William Parrott Hardy and Sarah Sowell.
Sources: Genealogies of Douglas MacArthur – https://www.geni.com
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