William Cameron Forbes
William Cameron Forbes | |
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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 | Boston, Massachusetts , U.S. | May 21, 1870
William Cameron Forbes (May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959) was an American
He was the son of
Philippines
During the administration of President
Forbes was an enthusiastic supporter of the summer capital at
Forbes, who was a polo enthusiast, founded the Manila Polo Club in 1919 in Pasay, Rizal.[6] It was the first polo field in the Philippines.[7] Forbes had envisioned the club as a venue for polo and leisure for "gentlemen of a certain class" assigned to work in the Philippines like himself.[8] He served as delegate of the club until the outbreak of World War II.[9] The clubhouse was inaugurated on November 27, 1909.[6]
In 1921, President Warren G. Harding sent Forbes and Leonard Wood as heads of the Wood-Forbes Commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines.[2][10] The Commission concluded that Filipinos were not yet ready for independence from the United States, a finding that was widely criticized in the Philippines.[11]
The gated community of Forbes Park in Makati, was named after him; and this community is the residence of some of the wealthiest people in the country. Lacson Avenue (formerly Gov. Forbes Street) in Sampaloc, Manila is still called "Forbes" by some up to the present day.
Haiti
Forbes was appointed by President Herbert Hoover in 1930 to lead a commission charged with investigating the reasons for ongoing minor rebellions in Haiti. Forbes gave Hoover a plan to stabilize Haiti and remove the US Marines. An agreement in August 1931 started the withdrawal and a similar plan led to Hoover's withdrawal of troops from Nicaragua. Franklin Roosevelt later completed the process, calling it the "Good Neighbor policy."[12]
Japan
Forbes was nominated by President Hoover and confirmed as
In 1935, Forbes headed an American Economic Mission to Japan and China to promote good business relations. The April 9, 1935 photo to the right presents Forbes meeting with the Japanese Minister of Commerce and Industry, Machida Chūji, at the official residence of Machida, in Tokyo. Together, they renegotiated agreements that would improve commercial relations between the two nations.[13]
Friendship with George Santayana
W. Cameron Forbes was a life-long friend of George Santayana, who was a young professor at Harvard during Forbes's last three undergraduate years there. Forbes was one of the models for the protagonist Oliver Arden in Santayana's novel The Last Puritan.[14]
Santayana was a frequent guest at
Buzzard's Bay, Cape Cod, that belonged to Cam's grandfather, John Murray Forbes, and at the family estate in Milton, Massachusetts ...[14]
Later years
Forbes received an LL.D. from
His seasonal home
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Harvard Crimson (Independent) (1897–1898) | |||||||||
1897 | Harvard | 10–1–1 | |||||||
1898 | Harvard | 11–0 | |||||||
Harvard: | 21–1–1 | ||||||||
Total: | 21–1–1 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
Sources
Forbes' 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).
Selected works
Forbes wrote the following books and articles:
- 1911 -- "As to Polo", Dedham Polo and Country Club.
- 1921 -- The Romance of Business
- 1928 -- The Philippine Islands, vol. 1, vol. 2
- 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).
See also
References
- ISBN 9780819139757.
- ^ a b c d "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.
- ^ "Gov. Forbes Ill; Worn Out by Eight Years Under High Tension in the Philippines," New York Times. June 22, 1912.
- ISBN 9780299231040.
- ^ Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019), p. 135, 130-131, 159.
- ^ a b "Manila Polo Club". G&W Clubshares, Inc. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ "Polo history in the Philippines". Manila Times. July 5, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ "A Polo Club membership: Less alluring but still highly desired". Rouge (The Anniversary Issue). July 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ Rizzo, Steve (August 8, 2016). "Filipino Polo". Polo Players Edition. 19 (12). United States Polo Association: 64–67. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
- The Outlook, 129: 133–135, retrieved July 30, 2009
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, "Wood-Forbes Mission"
- ^ Robert M. Spector, "W. Cameron Forbes in Haiti: Additional Light on the Genesis of the 'Good Neighbor' Policy" Caribbean Studies (1966) 6#2 pp 28-45.
- ^ "Introduction to The Art of Peace: the illustrated biography of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa". TheEmperorAndTheSpy.com. 2020.
- ^ ISBN 9780262194570.
Further reading
- Bangs, Outram. Notes on Philippine birds collected by Governor W. Cameron Forbes (Litres, 2021).
- Spector, Robert M. "W. Cameron Forbes in the Philippines: A Study in Proconsular Power." Journal of Southeast Asian History 7.2 (1966): 74-92.
- Spector, Robert M. "W. Cameron Forbes in Haiti: Additional Light on the Genesis of the 'Good Neighbor' Policy" Caribbean Studies (1966) 6#2 pp 28-45.
- Spector, Robert Melvin. W. Cameron Forbes and the Hoover commissions to Haiti, 1930 (University Press of America, 1985).
- Stanley, Peter W. "William Cameron Forbes: Proconsul in the Philippines." Pacific Historical Review 35.3 (1966): 285-301. online
Primary sources
- Forbes, William Cameron. Report of the President's Commission for the Study and Review of Conditions in the Republic of Haiti: March 26, 1930 (US Government Printing Office, 1930) online.
- Forbes, W. Cameron. "American Policies in the Far East." Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 73#2 (1939) online.
- Forbes, W. Cameron. "The Philippines under United States Rule." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 168.1 (1933): 156-161.
External links
- Media related to William Cameron Forbes at Wikimedia Commons