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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.
1. William Jay Gaynor at a dinner at Sherry's in honor of Forbes, May 14, 1912, referred to Forbes as a modern Pontius Pilate, Pro-Consul or Procurator of Judea at the time of Christ. Forbes Papers. Houghton Library, Harvard University. 2. W. Cameron Forbes, In Retrospect. In possession of the Forbes family.
William Cameron Forbes was the grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He graduated from Harvard University in 1892 and began a career in banking and business. Forbes became a partner various companies such as the J.M. Forbes & Company and the director of United Fruit Company, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Pacific Copper Company, Revere ...
W ILLIAM CAMERON FORBES enjoyed the distinction of having had as grandfathers two of the most famous men in nine-teenth-century America: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Boston's finan-cial prince and railroad developer, John Murray Forbes. A young man of thirty-five when first sent to the Philippines, he was in his
The papers of William Cameron Forbes (1870-1959) span the years 1904-1946. The collection consists of typewritten transcripts of journals documenting Forbes's activities in the civil government of the Philippines as secretary of commerce,
24 de ago. de 2009 · Forbes, Journal, entry for Mar. 7, 1913, Vol. V, p. 201. Forbes believed William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, the most antagonistic force in the new Wilson cabinet, and W. C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, his most enthusiastic champion.
William Cameron Forbes ( b. 21 May 1870; d. 24 December 1959), businessman and presidential adviser. Forbes, born in Milton, Massachusetts, graduated in 1892 from Harvard, where he later coached football. In 1894 he took a position at a Boston brokerage firm.
