Arthur MacArthur III

A son of United States Army General Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845–1912), he chose a career in the Navy instead of following his father, graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1896.

During the Spanish–American War, Ensign MacArthur served aboard the steam yacht {{USS|Vixen|PY-4}} in the Battle of Santiago. He later participated in naval operations during the Philippine–American War and the Boxer Rebellion.

On August 21, 1902, in Newport, Rhode Island, he married Mary Hendry McCalla (1877–1959), the daughter of Rear Admiral Bowman H. McCalla. His brother Douglas, a cadet at the United States Military Academy at the time, was his best man.{{cite news|title=The MacArthur-McCalla Wedding at Newport Today|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1902-08-21/ed-1/seq-5/|accessdate=2 June 2015|work=Evening Star|date=August 21, 1902|location=Washington, D.C.|page=5}} Arthur and Mary MacArthur had five children, Arthur (1904–1912), Bowman McCalla, Douglas (named in honor of his brother), Mary Elizabeth, and Malcolm (who died while attending the Naval Academy in 1933).{{cite book|last1=Miller|first1=Francis Trevelyn|title=General Douglas MacArthur – Fighter for Freedom|date=1942|publisher=John C. Winston Company|isbn=9781406707694|page=[https://archive.org/details/generalmacarthur007164mbp/page/n169 144]|url=https://archive.org/details/generalmacarthur007164mbp|accessdate=2 June 2015}}

From 1901 to 1903, MacArthur commanded the torpedo boat {{USS|Winslow|TB-5|2}}.{{cite book|title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps|date=1902|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|page=[https://archive.org/details/registercommiss12deptgoog/page/n35 34]|url=https://archive.org/details/registercommiss12deptgoog|accessdate=1 June 2015}} While in this capacity, he was involved in early submarine boat testing. While also commanding the {{USS|Holland|SS-1|6}}, he participated in Electric Boat's testing using their prototype Fulton, as a testbed for the {{sclass|Plunger|submarine}}s.

In November 1901, MacArthur was aboard the Fulton when it set an underwater endurance record of 15 hours on the bottom of Peconic Bay, New York.{{cite book|last1=Friedman|first1=Norman|last2=Christley|first2=James L. (illustrator)|title=U.S. submarines through 1945 : an illustrated design history|date=1995|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, MD|isbn=9781557502636|pages=27–28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qztw0sO2NgC}}{{cite news|title=Remarkable Air Test of the Fulton, Submarine Boat|url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026853/1902-01-08/ed-1/seq-3/|accessdate=1 June 2015|work=The Abbeville Press and Banner|date=8 January 1902|location=Abbeville, SC|page=3}}{{cite journal|title=Special Service|journal=Army and Navy Register|date=1903|volume=33|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okw-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=2 June 2015}}

Later, MacArthur was injured when, on a run from New Suffolk, New York, to Washington, D.C., to exhibit the submarine to naval committees of the House and Senate, the Fulton experienced a battery explosion off the Delaware Breakwater.{{cite journal|title=Ships|journal=Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers|date=1902|volume=14|issue=2|pages=614–615|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4RPAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=1 June 2015|publisher=American Society of Naval Engineers}} By June 1903, he was at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in command of the submarine flotilla consisting of the {{USS|Pike|SS-6|2}} and {{USS|Grampus|SS-4|2}}.{{cite book|title=Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps|date=1904|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|pages=34 and 189|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IRdFAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 June 2015}}{{cite journal|title=News and Comments|journal=Army and Navy Register|date=June 20, 1903|volume=33|issue=1226|page=4}}

MacArthur was transferred to the battleship {{USS|Ohio|BB-12|2}} prior to her commissioning in October 1904, making him a plank owner,{{cite journal|title=Personal Matters|journal=Army and Navy Register|date=October 15, 1904|volume=38|page=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y08-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 June 2015}}{{cite journal|title=The Battleship Ohio|journal=Army and Navy Register|date=September 22, 1906|volume=36|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hk4-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 June 2015}} and served aboard her until September 1906, when he was transferred to the United States Naval Academy. At the Naval Academy, he served initially as aide to the superintendent, Admiral James H. Sands{{cite journal|title=Personal Matters|journal=Army and Navy Register|date=September 22, 1906|volume=40|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2k0-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 June 2015}}{{cite journal|title=Notes from the Naval Academy|journal=Army and Navy Register|date=July 20, 1907|volume=42|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10s-AQAAMAAJ|accessdate=1 June 2015}} and subsequently on the staff for the commandant of midshipmen.{{cite journal|title=Officers, Professors, Instructors, etc., attached to the United States Naval Academy|journal=Annual Register of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md|date=1907|volume=63|page=19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSNIAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=1 June 2015|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}} His other commands included destroyer {{USS|McCall|DD-28}}, minelayer {{USS|San Francisco|CM-2}}, armored cruiser {{USS|South Dakota|ACR-9}} and light cruiser {{USS|Chattanooga|CL-18}}.

For distinguished service in protecting convoys from U-boats engaged in the Atlantic U-boat Campaign during 1918, MacArthur was awarded the Navy Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal. He was promoted to captain on January 1, 1921. MacArthur was a hereditary member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by right of his father's having served as a Union officer in the Civil War. Captain MacArthur died in Washington, D.C., of appendicitis in 1923, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery near his parents.[https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgltYWNhcnRodXISBmFydGh1cg--/ Burial Detail: MacArthur, Arthur] – ANC Explorer

• Navy Cross
• Navy Distinguished Service Medal
• Sampson Medal
• Spanish Campaign Medal
• China Campaign Medal
• Philippine Campaign Medal
• World War I Victory Medal

"For distinguished service in the line of his profession as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Chattanooga engaged in the important, exacting and hazardous duty of transporting and escorting troops and supplies to European ports through waters infested with enemy submarines and mines."

• Midshipman, United States Naval Academy – 6 September 1892
• Ensign – 6 May 1898
• Lieutenant (junior grade) – 6 May 1901
• Lieutenant – 3 March 1903
• Lieutenant Commander – 25 February 1909
• Commander – 17 August 1915
• Captain – 1 January 1921

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