Woodward was born on December 11, 1867, in
Washington, D.C. He attended
Georgetown University School of Medicine and graduated with an
M.D. in 1889. He married Ray Elliott Woodward (1866-1960) around 1895, and had three children: Creighton Elliott Woodward (1897-1904), Doris Woodward (1899-1900), and Elinor Woodward (1904-1978). In 1900 he received his
law degree from
Georgetown University. He was the head of the
Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legislation at the
American Medical Association starting in 1922. In 1938 as counsel for the
American Medical Association he defended the AMA when the
Sherman Antitrust Act was used to stop the AMA from preventing physicians from forming group practices. He died on December 22, 1949, in
Washington, D.C. He was buried in
Rock Creek Cemetery. ==See also==