Olcott Hawthorne Deming

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Olcott Hawthorne Deming (born February 28, 1909 in Westchester County , New York , † March 20, 2007 in Washington, DC ) was an ambassador to the United States .

Life

Deming was a great-grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne . Olcott Hawthorne Deming's parents were Imogen Hawthorne and physician William Champion Deming, he had six siblings. His children are Rust Macpherson Deming (* 1941 in Bethesda), Ambassador to Tunisia from 2000 to 2003, John Hawthorne Deming (* Washington) and Rosamond Bennett Deming from Madrid. He graduated from Rollins College in 1935 and worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority and as a teacher in Greenwich, Connecticut .

In 1942 he was employed in the State Department's Office of Inter-American Affairs . Deming joined the foreign service in 1948. From 1951 to 1954 he was consul in Bangkok . From 1955 to 1957 he was consul in Tokyo , where he climbed Mount Fuji . From 1957 to 1959 he was Consul General in Okinawa , which was under US military administration. He achieved that lease fees were paid for the US bases. From 1959 he headed the East and South Africa Department in the State Department. In 1963 he was Consul General in Kampala when his legation was upgraded to an embassy. As an ambassador , he oversaw one of the most ambitious missions of the United States Agency for International Development in a sub-Saharan country .

Deming was retired in 1969 . He later became an employee of the American Foreign Service Association. He was an avowed opponent of the presidential practice of appointing political ambassadors instead of ambassadors with a civil service career. In the 1970s he was chairman of the Georgetown Citizens Association , a citizens' initiative that opposed a bookstore for adults, the rental of basement floors and urban densification of the waterfront. He died of poisoning in a Washington hospice.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times , Apr. 7, 2007. Olcott Deming, 98, Ambassador to Newly Independent Uganda, Dies, obituary
  2. ↑ Washington Post obituary, March 23, 2007, [1]
personal data
SURNAME Deming, Olcott Hawthorne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Westchester County , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 2007
Place of death Washington, DC