Philippines
During the administration of President William Howard Taft, Forbes was governor-general of the Philippines, 1909-1916. Previously, during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, he had been Commissioner of Commerce and Police in the Philippine government from 1904 through 1908; and he was Vice Governor from 1908 through 1909. As modest legacy from those years of service in Manila, the gated community of Forbes Park in Makati, Rizal was named after him; and this community is the residence of some of the wealthiest people in the country. Also, Lacson Ave. (Formerly Forbes Ave.) in Manila is still called "Forbes" by some up to the present day.
In 1921, President Warren G. Harding sent Forbes and Leonard Wood as heads of the Wood-Forbes Commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. The Commission concluded that Filipinos were not yet ready for independence from the United States, a finding that was widely criticized in the Philippines.
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