General Of The Army Douglas Macarthur

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur [1] (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American general, United Nations general, and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and later played a prominent role in the Pacific theater of World War II. He was a highly decorated US soldier of the war,[2] receiving the Medal of Honor for his early service in the Philippines and on the Bataan Peninsula.[3] He was designated to command the proposed invasion of Japan in November 1945. When that was no longer necessary, he officially accepted the nation's surrender on September 2, 1945. MacArthur oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951. Although criticized for protecting Emperor Hirohito and the imperial family from prosecution for war crimes, MacArthur is credited with implementing far-reaching democratic reforms in that country. He led the United Nations Command forces defending South Korea against the North Korean invasion from 1950 to 1951. On April 11, 1951, MacArthur was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman for publicly disagreeing with Truman's Korean War Policy.[4] MacArthur fought in three major wars (World War I, World War II, Korean War) and was one of only five men ever to rise to the rank of General of the Army.

Elwell Stephen Otis Major General, United States Army Born at Frederick City, Maryland, March 25, 1838, he graduated from the University of Rochester (NY) in 1858 and Harvard Law School in 1861. He was commissioned Captain, 140th New York Volunteer Infantry on September 13, 1862, was appointed Lieutenant Colonel on December 23, 1863 and was later appointed Colonel. He was honorably mustered out of the volunteer service on January 14, 1865,having been incapacitated by a wound in battle. He was breveted Brigadier General, United States Volunteers, on March 13, 1865 in recoginition of his Civil War service. He was appointed from New York as Lieutenant Colonel, 22nd United States Infantry on March 2, 1869, Colonel, 20th Infantry, February 8, 1880, Brigadier General, November 28, 1893 and Major General, United States Volunteers, May 4, 1898, and, finally, Major General, United States Army, on June 16, 1906. He was retired by operation of law at the mandatory retirement age on March 25,1902. He was commended for military skill and most distinguished service in the Philippines during the Insurrection there. He departed for the Philippines on July 15, 1898 and once there relieved Major General Wesley Merritt as Commanding General and Military Governor of the Islands, August 29, 1898. Conducted operations against insurgents and performed duties of military Governor until May 5, 1900. Was also a member of the Philippine Commission. On his return to the United States he was assigned to command of the Department of the

Lakes, with headquarters in Chicago, October 29, 1900. He then retired to Rochester, New York, where he died on October 21, 1909. He was buried with full military honors in Section 7 of Arlington National Cemetery.

Jacob Gould Schurman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Schurmann in 1930 Jacob Gould Schurman (May 22, 1854 – August 12, 1942), American educationist, was born at Freetown, Prince Edward Island of Dutch descent, his Loyalist ancestors having left New York in 1784. While a student at Acadia College, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1875, he won the Canadian Gilchrist scholarship in the University of London, from which he received the degree of BA in 1877 and that of MA in 1878, and in 1877-1880 studied in Paris, Edinburgh and (as Hibbert Fellow) in Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen. He was professor of English literature, political economy and psychology at Acadia College in 1880-1882, of metaphysics and English literature at Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1882-1886, and of philosophy (Sage professor) at Cornell University in 1886-1892, being Dean of the

Sage School of Philosophy in 1891-1892. In 1892 he became the third president of Cornell University, a position he kept until 1920. He was chairman of the First United States Philippine Commission in 1899, and wrote (besides a part of the official report to Congress) Philippine Affairs--A Retrospect and an Outlook (1902). With J. E. Creighton and James Seth he founded in 1892 The Philosophical Review. He also wrote Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution (1881); The Ethical Import of Darwinism (1888); Belief in God (1890), and Agnosticism and Religion (1896). Schurman served as United States Ambassador to Greece in 1912-13, Ambassador to China between 1921 and 1925, and then as Ambassador to Germany between 1925 and 1929. In 1917 Schurman was appointed honorary chairman of the American Relief Committee for Greeks of Asia Minor, an organization which provided humanitarian relief to Ottoman Greeks during the Greek genocide. He retired to Bedford Hills, New York in 1930.