Stanley Woodward (political aide)

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[5] Woodward studied at Yale University, graduated in 1922 and was a 1922 initiate into the Skull and Bones Society.^[6] 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 Vassar College and become more acquainted with while they were both teachers in China. Woodward then studied at the Ecole des Science Politiques in Paris.^[7]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 formalwear.^{[citation needed]}

He served as the United States Ambassador to Canada (1950–53).^[6]

• Contosta, David R. (1992). The Houstons and Woodwards of Chestnut Hill. University of Pennsylvania Press.
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