Orison Rudolph Aggrey (July 24, 1926 – April 6, 2016) was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Romania.
Aggrey was born in 1926 in Salisbury, North Carolina as the youngest of four children to Dr.
He died in April 2016 at the age of 89.He graduated in 1946 from Hampton Institute and received his master's degree from Syracuse University in 1948.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated Aggrey to be Ambassador Extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the U.S.