Richard Stamps

Richard B. Stamps (born 1942) is a retired American associate professor of anthropology at Oakland University and Chair of The Ambassador Leonard Woodcock Legacy.

He served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Taiwan from 1962 to 1965.

His thesis was an archaeological survey of the Pʹuli Basin in West Central Taiwan.

From 1994 to 1997 Stamps served as president of the Taiwan Taipei Mission of the LDS Church.

He co-authored a book with Bruce Hawkins and Nancy E Wright about Thomas Edison's boyhood home titled Search for the House in the Grove.