William Cameron Forbes '92 was nominated yesterday by President Hoover to be the American Ambassador to Japan. The appointment was transmitted to the Senate yesterday afternoon. Mr. Forbes will succeed to the post now filled by another Harvard alumnus, William Richards Castle Jr. '00. Castle had been the only American Ambassador in Tokio since Charles MacVeagh.
Mr. Forbes has long been prominent in the government. In 1904 he was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Philippine Commission and in 1908 he became Vice-Governor of the Philippines. A year later he was appointed Governor-General. In 1914 he accepted the appointment as receiver of the Brazil Railway Company.
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