William Phillips (diplomat)
| William Phillips | |
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| 2nd Assistant Secretary of State | |
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In office January 24, 1917 – March 25, 1920 |
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| President | Woodrow Wilson |
| Preceded by | John E. Osborne |
| Succeeded by | Fred Morris Dearing |
| Under Secretary of State | |
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In office April 26, 1922 – April 11, 1924 |
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| President | Warren G. Harding |
| Preceded by | Henry P. Fletcher |
| Succeeded by | Joseph C. Grew |
| United States Ambassador to Belgium | |
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In office February 29, 1924 – March 1, 1927 |
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| President | Calvin Coolidge |
| Preceded by | Henry P. Fletcher |
| Succeeded by | Hugh S. Gibson |
| United States Ambassador to Canada | |
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In office February 17, 1927 – December 14, 1929 |
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| President | Herbert Hoover |
| Succeeded by | Hanford MacNider |
| Under Secretary of State | |
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In office March 6, 1933 – August 23, 1936 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | William R. Castle, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Sumner Welles |
| United States Ambassador to Italy | |
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In office August 4, 1936 – October 6, 1941 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Breckinridge Long |
| Succeeded by | George Wadsworth |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 30, 1878 Beverly, Massachusetts |
| Died | February 23, 1968 (aged 89) |
| Alma mater |
Harvard College; Harvard Law School |
William Phillips (May 30, 1878 – February 23, 1968) was a career United States diplomat who served twice as an Under Secretary of State.
Phillips was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1900 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1903. His first political job was working as a private secretary in London to Joseph Hodges Choate, the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Choate was a friend of Phillips' family and also from Massachusetts.
Phillips subsequently went to work for the United States Minister to China in Beijing After his return from China, he became a member of President Theodore Roosevelt's Tennis Cabinet and thanks to his previous diplomatic experience and new friendship with TR was assigned to set up the State Department's Division of Far Eastern Affairs and was made its first chief. In 1909 he returned to work in London for Ambassador Whitelaw Reid.
In 1914, he was appointed as Assistant Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson and remained in that position until 1920, when he was made the Minister Plenipotentiary to Netherlands and Luxembourg (in residence in the Netherlands).
From 1922 to 1924, he served as Under Secretary of State. In 1924, he was appointed as Ambassador to Belgium, where he remained until 1927, when he became the first Minister to Canada, until 1929.
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