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{{short description|American diplomat}}
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| name                = Phillips Talbot
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| president           = [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
| ambassador_from     = United States
| country             = Greece
| term_start          = 1965
| term_end            = 1969
| predecessor         = [[Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr.|Henry Labouisse]]
| successor           = [[Henry J. Tasca]]
| order2              = 6th
| president2          = [[John F. Kennedy]]<br>[[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]]
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| 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 at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]]
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'''William Phillips Talbot''' (June 7, 1915 &ndash; October 1, 2010) was a [[Ambassadors of the United States|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]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>

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

==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]].<ref>{{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}}</ref> The Phillips Talbot Fellowship was named in his honor and is awarded yearly by the Institute to promising young journalists.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Politics===
[[File:Phillips Talbot - Ben Gurion 1961.JPG|thumb|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 [[John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]] administrations.<ref>{{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 (magazine)|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}}</ref>

Talbot served as President of [[Asia Society]] from 1970-1982 and was awarded the [[Padma Shri]] in March 2002<ref name="Padma Awards">{{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 }}</ref> for his efforts in fomenting peace between India and America during his tenure as President.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090513203941/http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS090.html Phillips Talbot Papers 1915-1968]

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