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Phillips Talbot

American diplomat

Summary

American diplomat

Field	Value
name	Phillips Talbot
image	Phillips Talbot.png
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 AffairsAssistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
term_start2	1961
term_end2	1964
predecessor2	G. Lewis Jones
successor2	Raymond A. Hare
<!--PERSONAL-->	birth_date
birth_place	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Washington, D.C., U.S.
alma_mater	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Lyndon B. Johnson 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.

Early life

Talbot was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and served in the United States Navy during World War II.

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. The Phillips Talbot Fellowship was named in his honor and is awarded yearly by the Institute to promising young journalists.

Politics

Phillips Talbot, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, meeting Israel's PM [[David Ben-Gurion]] 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.

Talbot served as President of Asia Society from 1970-1982 and was awarded the Padma Shri in March 2002 for his efforts in fomenting peace between India and America during his tenure as President.

References

(25 July 2017). "Asia Society Remembers Phillips Talbot (1915-2010)".
"William Phillips Talbot".
"The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Talbot".
(13 April 2008). "An absorbing partition saga through eyes of an American". Bombay News.
(June 26, 2009). "Pakistan, a land of passion and peril". [[Star Tribune]].
(October 6, 2007). "Path to Partition: A witness' account". [[Frontline (magazine).
(2015). "Padma Awards". Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.
(March 26, 2002). "Honour for two Indologists". [[The Hindu]].

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