Rust Macpherson Deming (born October 11, 1941) is a professor and retired American diplomat. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States to

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from 1993 to 1996 and

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of the United States to Tunisia from 2011 to 2013.

Early life

Deming, a great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born in 1941 to father

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, the first U.S. ambassador to Uganda, and mother Louis Macpherson on October 11, 1941, in Greenwich, Connecticut. He graduated from

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in 1964, and earned a master's degree in East Asian Studies from

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in 1981. He is married to Kristen Deming, and has three daughters and seven grandchildren, with his eldest granddaughter currently attending Princeton University.

Foreign Service career

Deming joined the

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in 1966 as a political officer in the United States Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia. He spent much of his career dealing with Japanese affairs, having served in

as Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, from December 1996 to September 1997 and as Deputy Chief of Mission under Ambassador Walter Mondale from October 1993 to December 1996. From September 1991 to August 1993, he was Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs in Washington, DC. He served as Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the American Embassy in Tokyo from August 1987 to July 1991. From 1985 to 1986, he was detailed to the

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in Washington, DC.

Later life

Deming is currently an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he teaches in the Japan Studies department. In 2014, he received the

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, Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon from the government of Japan. He is chairman emeritus of the Japan America Society of Washington, DC and a member of the

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, the American Foreign Service Association, and the

Alumni Association.

External links

Johns Hopkins University biography, accessed November 16, 2015
* ttp://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Deming-Rust-M.oh1_.pdf The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training interview, December 8, 2004

References

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