Phillips Talbot

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| president = Lyndon B. Johnson

| ambassador_from = United States

| country = Greece

| term_start = 1965

| term_end = 1969

| predecessor = Henry Labouisse

| successor = Henry J. Tasca

| order2 = 6th

| president2 = John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson

| office2 = Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs{{!}}Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

| term_start2 = 1961

| term_end2 = 1964

| predecessor2 = G. Lewis Jones

| successor2 = Raymond A. Hare

| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|6|7}}

| birth_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|10|1|1915|6|7}}

| death_place = Washington, D.C.

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| alma_mater = University of Illinois

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William Phillips Talbot (June 7, 1915 – October 1, 2010) was a United States Ambassador to Greece (1965–69) and, at his death, member of the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Council of American Ambassadors and the Council on Foreign Relations.{{Cite web | url=http://asiasociety.org/centers/new-york/asia-society-remembers-phillips-talbot-1915-2010 |title = Asia Society Remembers Phillips Talbot (1915-2010)| date=25 July 2017 }}{{Cite web |url=http://uihistoriesproject.chass.illinois.edu/TAMHistory/Talbot/kh_talbot3.html |title=William Phillips Talbot |access-date=2010-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719211759/http://uihistoriesproject.chass.illinois.edu/TAMHistory/Talbot/kh_talbot3.html |archive-date=2011-07-19 |url-status=dead }}

Early life

Talbot was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and served in the United States Navy during World War II.{{Cite web | url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talbot.html | title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Talbot}}

Career

=Journalism=

After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1936, Talbot started as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, where he remained from 1936 to 1938. In 1939, having been turned down for a foreign correspondent position, he left the Chicago Daily News to take a position with the Institute of Current World Affairs in India where he reported on the Indian independence movement.{{cite web|title=An absorbing partition saga through eyes of an American|url=http://www.bombaynews.net/story/348061|date=13 April 2008|publisher=Bombay News|access-date=8 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723032054/http://www.bombaynews.net/story/348061|archive-date=23 July 2011|url-status=dead}} The Phillips Talbot Fellowship was named in his honor and is awarded yearly by the Institute to promising young journalists.{{cite web|title=Pakistan, a land of passion and peril|url=http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/49118857.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aU1ccmiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUr|date=June 26, 2009|publisher=Star Tribune|access-date=September 8, 2009}}

=Politics=

File:Phillips Talbot - Ben Gurion 1961.JPG in Jerusalem]]

Talbot was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs from 1961-65 during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.{{cite web|title=Path to Partition: A witness' account|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2420/stories/20071019506308400.htm|date=October 6, 2007|publisher=Frontline|access-date=8 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412234123/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2420/stories/20071019506308400.htm|archive-date=12 April 2008|url-status=usurped}}

Talbot served as President of Asia Society from 1970-1982 and was awarded the Padma Shri in March 2002{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015 | archive-date=October 15, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }} for his efforts in fomenting peace between India and America during his tenure as President.{{cite web|title=Honour for two Indologists|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/03/26/stories/2002032602001200.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021023114532/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/03/26/stories/2002032602001200.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 23, 2002|date=March 26, 2002|work=The Hindu|access-date=September 9, 2009}}