President of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation
In office 1911–1916
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Manuel L. Quezon
Personal details
Born
(1870-05-21)May 21, 1870 Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died
December 24, 1959(1959-12-24) (aged 89) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
William Cameron Forbes (May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959) was an American investment banker and diplomat. He served as governor-general of the Philippines from 1909 to 1913 and ambassador of the United States to Japan from 1930 to 1932.
He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes, president of the Bell Telephone Company, who was part of the Boston Brahmin family that made its fortune trading in China, and wife Edith Emerson, a daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He was grandson of Sarah Hathaway and John Murray Forbes and Lidian Jackson and Ralph Waldo Emerson. After education at the Milton Academy and Boston's Hopkinson School[1] and graduation from Harvard in 1892, he embarked on a business career, eventually becoming a partner in J. M. Forbes and Company.[2]
^Spector, Robert Melvin (1985). W. Cameron Forbes and the Hoover Commissions to Haiti, 1930. University Press of America. p. 51. ISBN 9780819139757.
^"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.
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