Stanley Burnet Resor led the J. Walter Thompson (JWT

JWT

JWT is one of the largest advertising agencies in the United States and the fourth-largest in the world. It is one of the key companies of Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP Group and is headquartered in New York. The global agency is led by Worldwide Chairman and Global CEO Bob Jeffrey who took over the...

) advertising firm in the mid-twentieth century. Collaborating with his wife, Helen Lansdowne Resor

Helen Lansdowne Resor

Helen Bayless Lansdowne Resor was an American advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson Co.. A noted copywriter, she was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 1967. She was named #14 on the list of 100 Advertising people of the 20th Century by Advertising Age.She married her husband...

, who was the creator of some of the most memorable advertising campaigns of the time, he built the firm into one of the leading firms in the United States.

Resor was born in Ohio and was with JWT from 1916 to 1955. Resor's vacation home in Wyoming, Snake River Ranch

Snake River Ranch

The Snake River Ranch, near Wilson, Wyoming, is the largest deeded ranch in the Jackson Hole area. The ranch buildings are grouped into three complexes comprising headquarters, residential and shop complexes. The ranch combined two neighboring homesteads and was first owned by advertising executive...

 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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