Editing Douglas MacArthur II (section)

==Early life and education==
MacArthur's parents were Captain [[Arthur MacArthur III]] and Mary McCalla MacArthur. Through his mother, he was a grandson of [[Bowman H. McCalla]], great-grandson of Colonel [[Horace Binney Sargent]], and great-great-grandson of [[Lucius Manlius Sargent]]. Named for his uncle, [[General]] [[Douglas MacArthur]], he was born in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], in 1909.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/17/world/douglas-macarthur-2d-88-former-ambassador-to-japan.html|title=Douglas MacArthur 2d, 88, Former Ambassador to Japan|last=Pace|first=Eric|date=November 17, 1997|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=March 13, 2019|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

MacArthur graduated from [[Milton Academy]] in Milton, Mass., and from [[Yale College]], Class of 1932. He married Laura Louise Barkley on August 21, 1934, the daughter of future U.S. Vice President [[Alben Barkley]].<ref name=":0" />

He married Laura Louise Barkley, the daughter of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Harry S. Truman]]'s [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]] [[Alben W. Barkley]] in 1934. They had a daughter named Laura MacArthur, two grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pearson |first=Richard |date=1997-11-16 |title=MACARTHUR II DIES AT 88 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/11/16/macarthur-ii-dies-at-88/1e85cedc-bfe5-46c7-a83b-342ad4c82e2f/ |access-date=2024-01-08 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Douglas's daughter married Henry Goditiabois-Deacon, a [[Belgium|Belgian]] man with whom she had a daughter. [[Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]] signed a special bill conferring [[Citizenship of the United States|U.S. citizenship]] to Laura's daughter in 1965.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1965-09-24 |title=Conferring Citizenship |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-daily-star-conferring-citizenshi/14213276/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=Arizona Daily Star |pages=16}}</ref>