Stanley Burnet Resor (April 30, 1879 – 1962) led the

J. Walter Thompson J. Walter Thompson (JWT) was an advertisement holding company incorporated in 1896 by American advertising pioneer James Walter Thompson. The company was acquired in 1987 by multinational holding company WPP plc, and in November 2018, WPP merge ...

(JWT) advertising firm in the mid-twentieth century. Collaborating with his wife,

Helen Lansdowne Resor Helen Bayless Lansdowne Resor (February 20, 1886 – January 2, 1964) was an American advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson, J. Walter Thompson Co. A noted copywriter,"The Greatest Copywriter," The New York Herald Tribune, January 3, 1964 s ...

, who was the creator of some of the most memorable advertising campaigns of the time, he built the firm into one of the leading firms in the United States. Resor was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was a 1901 graduate of

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

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J. Walter Thompson Co. Biographical Files, 1916-1998, bulk 1960s-1980s
Retrieved May 23, 2014 In 1908 he was engaged by

(JWT) to head the agency's new Cincinnati Office. In 1912 he was promoted to Vice President and General Manager and moved to the agency's New York Office. He was with JWT from 1916 to 1955. In the 1930's, Resor and his wife commissioned

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd ...

to design a vacation house in Wyoming, bu
Mies' design
was not built. The Resor's Wyoming property, Snake River Ranch, is listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

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American advertising executives 1879 births 1962 deaths Businesspeople from Ohio Resor family {{1870s-US-business-bio-stub