| Stanley Woodward | |
| Office: | Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee |
| Term Start: | December 13, 1953[1] |
| Term End: | January 7, 1955[2] |
| Predecessor: | Dwight R. G. Palmer |
| Successor: | Matthew H. McCloskey |
| Office2: | 7th Chief of Protocol of the United States |
| President2: | Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman |
| Term Start2: | January 15, 1944 |
| Term End2: | May 22, 1950 |
| Successor2: | John F. Simmons |
| Order1: | 3rd |
| Ambassador From1: | United States |
| Country1: | Canada |
| Term Start1: | June 22, 1950 |
| Term End1: | January 14, 1953 |
| Predecessor1: | Laurence Steinhardt |
| Successor1: | R. Douglas Stuart |
| President1: | Harry S. Truman |
| Birth Name: | Stanley Woodward |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Birth Date: | March 12, 1899 |
| Death Place: | Washington, D.C. |
| Education: | Yale University |
Stanley Woodward Sr. (March 12, 1899[3] - August 17, 1992[4]) was the White House Chief of Protocol under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and United States Ambassador to Canada under President Harry S. Truman.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[5] Woodward studied at Yale University, 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 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.[6]
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 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.
He served as the United States Ambassador to Canada (1950–53).[7]