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William Taylor Turner (1900–1996) {{ill|ウィリアム・テイラー・ターナー|jp}} was an American diplomat who served in China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. The son of Southern Methodist missionaries to Japan, he was born in Kobe 神戸市, Hyôgo Prefecture, Japan. His father was William Pattillo Turner (1864–1912), and his mother was Alice Mae Taylor Turner (1867–1955).^[1] Both were missionaries with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He served as American Consul General in various locations and also as head of Japanese affairs at the American State Department.

Career

After his father’s death in 1912, Turner returned to the US where he was educated at Meridian College in Meridian, Mississippi, and Henderson-Brown College (now called Henderson State University). His draft card shows that he was working as a clerk for the Alabama and Mississippi Railroad in Vinegar Bend, Alabama at age 18. He joined the US Army in 1918, and graduated from Emory College in 1921. From 1921–23 he taught at Kwansei Gakuin Commercial College 関西学院高等商業学部 (now part of Kwansei Gakuin University) in Kobe. He worked in the US Foreign Service during the latter part of the 1920s and the 1930s, serving mostly in Japan but also in Dairen (Dalian 大連), China. In 1942, he was posted to Washington DC, first to the State Department and afterwards to the Department of the Navy. In 1945, he graduated from the Army-Navy Staff College (now the National War College). Later that same year he became chief of Japanese Affairs at the State Department. In February 1946, he became the first secretary at the US Consulate in Chongqing 慶領, Republic of China 中華民国; and held a similar post from April that same year in the US Consulate at Nanjing 南京. He attained the rank of Consul General at Nanjing on February 12, 1948, and then was appointed Consul General for Qingdao 青島 on February 24, 1948. The following year, he became Consul General in Windsor, Canada; and was appointed to the same rank in Bangkok, Thailand. From 1953, he was Counselor at the US Embassy in Tokyo.^[2]

Liancourt Rocks dispute

Turner is associated with the debate over the sovereignty of the Liancourt Rocks (called "Dokdo" [Hangul: 독도; Hanja: 獨島] in Korean and "Takeshima" [竹島] in Japanese) because of his 1953 "Memorandum in Regard to the Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima Island) controversy."^[3]

Personal life

Turner married Florence Bell Green (1905–1990). They had two children: actor, writer and editor Alice Kennedy Turner (1939–2015) and Daniel Turner (b. 1940).^[4] He died in 1996.{{cn|date=December 2018}}

References

1. ^World War I draft registration card for William Taylor Turner, serial no. 854, no. 250, Local Board for the County of Washington, State of Alabama, Chatom, Alabama; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007, Washington D.C.; Roll #: 1682; Volume #: Roll 1682 - Certificates: 62250-62625, 07 Jul 1921-08 Jul 1921.
2. ^United States. Dept. of State (1950-04-01). REGISTER of the Department of State 1950. Office of Public Affairs, Department of State, p.188.
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memorandum_in_regard_to_the_Liancourt_Rocks_(Takeshima_Island)_controversy|title=Memorandum in regard to the Liancourt Rocks (Takeshima Island) controversy|first=William T.|last=Turner|publisher=|accessdate=16 December 2018|via=Wikisource}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/business/media/alice-k-turner-fiction-editor-of-playboy-for-20-years-dies-at-75.html|title=Alice K. Turner Dies at 75; Playboy Editor Kept Fiction Alive|first=Sam|last=Roberts|date=24 January 2015|publisher=|accessdate=16 December 2018|via=NYTimes.com}}