William Cameron Forbes (I43193)
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| Birth | 21 May 1870  28 |
| Death | 24 December 1959 (Age 89) |
| Universal Identifier | 599CF03F6A02664495FF71A5633D22872D03 |
| Last Change | 29 July 2006 - 20:55:33 |
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Governor-General of the Philippines 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. US Ambassador to Japan, 1930-1932. Forbes received an LL.D. from Bates College in 1932. 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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