Samuel Rhea Gammon III (January 22, 1924 – October 21, 2024) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Mauritius under the Carter Administration.
[1] He also served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Paris under ambassadors Kenneth Rush (1974–77) in France and Arthur Hartman (1977–81).
[2] On February 15, 2012, he endowed a gift of $200,000 to the Department of History at Texas A&M University.
[3] Gammon was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946.
In 2020, it was reported that Gammon, aged 96, had donated an estate gift to Texas A&M University's Department of History to honour the memory of his father.