Olcott Deming

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

Life

Deming was a great-grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The parents of Olcott Hawthorne Deming were Imogen Hawthorne and physician William Champion Deming, he had six siblings. His children are Rust Macpherson Deming ( * 1941 in Bethesda ), 2000-2003 Ambassador to Tunisia, 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 by the Office of Inter- American Affairs of the State Department. 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 ascended the Fuji. From 1957 to 1959 he was consul general in Okinawa, which was under U.S. military administration. He reached that lease fees have been paid for the U.S. bases. From 1959 he headed the department of East and South Africa at the State Department. In 1963 he was consul general in Kampala as his legation was upgraded to an embassy. As ambassador, he oversaw one of the most ambitious missions of the United States Agency for International Development in Sub -Saharan country.

Deming in 1969 retired. Later, he joined the staff at the American Foreign Service Association. He was an avowed opponent of the presidential practice of appointing political ambassadors instead ambassador with an official's career. In the 1970s he was chairman of the Georgetown Citizens Association, a citizens' initiative. Against a bookstore for adults, rental of basement levels and urban densification the waterfront He died of poisoning in a hospice in Washington.