Stanley Woodward Sr. (March 12, 1899 – August 17, 1992) was the

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Chief of Protocol under President

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and United States Ambassador to Canada under President

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Biography

Born in

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, Pennsylvania Woodward studied at

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, graduated in 1922 and was a 1922 initiate into the Skull and Bones Society. He later was a teacher for a year at Ya-Li. After teaching in China he took an extended tour through Malaya and India. On October 20, 1923 Woodward married Shirley Rutherfoord, whom he had met when she visited Yale while a student at

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and become more acquainted with while they were both teachers in China. Woodward then studied at the Ecole des Science Politiques in Paris. He was a

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in Europe and Haiti from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s before returning to Philadelphia as commissioner of

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. He returned to the Foreign Service in 1937, serving first as assistant chief of protocol and then as chief of protocol at the State Department until his appointment as ambassador in 1950. He was a favorite social companion of FDR. Notable for his cautiousness in protecting Axis diplomats at the onset of World War II, he was also largely responsible for the introduction of black tie attire as acceptable

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. He served as the United States Ambassador to Canada (1950–53).

References

External links

*Contosta, David R. (1992)
''The Houstons and Woodwards of Chestnut Hill''.
University of Pennsylvania Press.
US Department of State
White House staff 1899 births 1992 deaths Ambassadors of the United States to Canada American expatriates in China American expatriates in France American expatriates in Haiti United States Foreign Service personnel Chiefs of Protocol of the United States Democratic National Committee treasurers Yale University alumni Members of Skull and Bones {{US-poli-bio-stub