William Cameron Forbes
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William Cameron Forbes (May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959), was governor-general of the Philippines and an investment banker.
He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes, president of the Bell Telephone Company, and of Edith Emerson, a daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Forbes was appointed by President Herbert Hoover in 1930 to lead a commission charged with investigating the reasons for ongoing minor rebellions in Haiti. Later he became United States Ambassador to Japan, 1930-1932. Forbes received an LL.D. from Bates College in 1932. He was on the Board of Trustees, Carnegie Institution of Washington and a Life Member of the Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was on the original standing committee of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles from 1941. He died unmarried in 1959.
The gated community of Forbes Park in Makati City, the Philippines, is named after him, and is the residence of some of the wealthiest people in the country.
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His papers are in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Copies of his annotated journal are at the Library of Congress and the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. The report of the Forbes Commission's Haitian analysis is at the Library of Congress.
Philippine administrator:
- Peter W. Stanley, A Nation in the Making: The Philippines and the United States, 1899-1921 (1974)
- Rev. Camillus Gott, "William Cameron Forbes and the Philippines, 1904-1946" (Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1974)
- Theodore Friend, Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929-1946 (1965).
Ambassador to Japan:
- Gary Ross, "W. Cameron Forbes: The Diplomacy of a Darwinist," in R. D. Burns and E. M. Bennett, eds., Diplomats in Crisis (1974).
- Robert H. Ferrell, American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover-Stimson Foreign Policy, 1929-1933 (1957)
- Armin Rappaport, Henry L. Stimson and Japan, 1931-1933 (1963)
- James B. Crowley, Japan's Quest for Autonomy (1966).
[edit] Selected works
He wrote the following books and articles:
- 1921 -- The Romance of Business
- 1935 -- Fuddlehead by Fuddlehead (autobiography) the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
- 1936 -- "A Survey of Developments in the Philippine Movement for Independence," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1932-1936.
- 1939 -- "American Policies in the Far East," Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (January 1939).
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[edit] References
- "W. Cameron Forbes for Envoy to Japan; Bostonian Selected by President Hoover to Succeed W.R. Castle Jr.; Forbes was in Philippines; Served There as Vice Governor and Governor General Under Roosevelt and Taft," New York Times. June 3, 1930.
| Preceded by Newton W. Gilbert |
Governor-General of the Philippines 1908-1913 |
Succeeded by Francis Burton Harrison |
| Preceded by William Castle, Jr. |
U.S. Ambassador to Japan 1930–1932 |
Succeeded by Joseph Grew |
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