Background
WOODARD, Granville Son of Elwin S. and Letitia Belle (Sherer) Woodard.
WOODARD, Granville Son of Elwin S. and Letitia Belle (Sherer) Woodard.
Riverside Polytechnic H.S., Riverside, California, 1912; School of Military Aeronautics, Austin, Texas, 1917; University of California, Bachelor of Arts, 1922; P.G. Work School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, 1922-1923
Commissioned Second Lieutenant United States Army Air Service, 1918. First Lieutenant, 1918. Resigned commission, 1919.
Appointed (after examination) Y-Consul of Career, and assigned to Tientsin, China, 1923, appointed Assistant Trade Comrnnr., Shanghai, China, 1927, promoted to Trade Comrnnr., Shanghai, China, 1929. American Trade Comrnnr., Hongkong, July, 1930.
Spouse Marymae Cattern, April 30, 1929, Tokyo, Japan.