William Cameron Forbes

William Cameron Forbes
United States Ambassador to Japan
In office September 15, 1930 – March 22, 1932
President	Herbert Hoover
Preceded by	William Castle, Jr.
Succeeded by	Joseph Grew
Governor General of the Philippines
In office November 11, 1909 – September 1, 1913
President	William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by	James Francis Smith
Succeeded by	Francis Burton Harrison
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]