Samuel Rhea Gammon III (born January 22, 1924) is an American former diplomat who served as the United States Amb*ador to Mauritius under the Carter Administration. He also served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Paris under amb*adors Kenneth Rush (1974–77) in France and Arthur Hartman (1977–81). He later resigned the amb*adorship, and was replaced by Robert C. F. Gordon. On February 15, 2012, he endowed a gift of $200,000 to the Department of History at Texas A&M University.

Gammon is 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.

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