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

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Chief of Protocol under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and

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under President

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. He was a favorite social companion of FDR. Notable for his cautiousness in protecting

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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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. In his youth, he had an inclination for the Bishop's robe.

Biography

Born in

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, Pennsylvania Woodward studied at

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. He later was a teacher for a year at Ya-Li. After his time teaching in China he took an extended tour through Malaya and India. On October 20, 1923 Woodward married Shirley Rutherfoord, who 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 Foreign Service officer in Europe and Haiti from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s before returning to Philadelphia as commissioner of Fairmount Park. 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 served as the United States Ambassador to Canada (1950–53), graduated from

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University in 1922 and was a 1922 initiate into the

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Society.

References

*Contosta, David R. (1992)
''The Houstons and Woodwards of Chestnut Hill''.
University of Pennsylvania Press.
US Department of State
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