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.
[1] 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.
He retired in 1969, later becoming an official of the American Foreign Service Association.
Deming died March 20, 2007, aged 98 of sepsis at a hospice in Washington, D.C.