{{Short description|American diplomat (1909–2007)}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Olcott Hawthorne Deming |order = 1st |ambassador_from = United States |country = Uganda |president = John F. Kennedy<br>Lyndon B. Johnson |term_start = January 14, 1963 |term_end = June 26, 1966 |predecessor = ''Office established'' |successor = Henry Endicott Stebbins |office1 = U.S consul general in Okinawa |term_start1 = 1957 |term_end1 = 1959 |birth_date = {{birth date|1909|2|28}} |birth_place = Westchester County, New York, United States of America |death_date = {{death date and age|2007|3|20|1909|2|28}} |death_place = Washington D.C., United States of America |education = Rollins College (1935) }} '''Olcott Hawthorne Deming''' (February 28, 1909 – March 20, 2007) was an American career diplomat who was the first ambassador of the United States to Uganda.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 April 1988 |title=The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR OLCOTT H. DEMING |url=https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Deming,%20Olcott%20H.toc.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240716190955/https://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Deming,%20Olcott%20H.toc.pdf |archive-date=16 July 2024 |access-date=16 July 2024 |website=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}</ref>
==Early life== Deming, a great-grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born February 28, 1909, in Westchester County, New York.
He graduated from Rollins College in 1935, and worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority and as a teacher in Greenwich, Connecticut.
==Career== Deming joined the State Department in 1942. From 1957 to 1959, he was U.S. consul general in Okinawa. He served as Ambassador to the newly independent nation of Uganda from 1962 to 1965. He retired in 1969, later becoming an official of the American Foreign Service Association.
==Later life== Deming died March 20, 2007, aged 98 of sepsis at a hospice in Washington, D.C.
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==External links== *[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/obituaries/07deming.html?ref=obituaries New York Times obituary, Apr. 7, 2007] *[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202069.html?nav=hcmodule Washington Post obituary, March 23, 2007]
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