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| | General Douglas MacArthur and Governor Jonathan Belcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | MacArthur had disembarked from a cruiser, and while being transported toward shore, had left his barge when it ran aground fifty feet from shore, and dressed in his khaki uniform, had waded through knee-deep waters to walk the final few yards to the beach. |
 | | In 1844, Judge MacArthur found the proper girl he thought should be his wife, and he married her in Massachusetts--the state formerly known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which from 1730-1741 was under the rule of American Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757), "Commander-in-Chief and supreme Governor of New England" and Vice-Admiral of the same. |
 | | Judge Arthur and Aurelia (Belcher) MacArthur's son, Lt. General Arthur MacArthur, Jr., won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the American Civil War and later was military governor of the Philippines. |
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