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.

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.

[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.

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.