Stanhope Wood Nixon

Stanhope Wood Nixon (April 1, 1894 – January 12, 1958) was a vice president of the Nixon Nitration Works during the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster. He later became chairman of the board. He withdrew from Yale and never graduated. He married Doris Ryer in 1917; the couple had two children who survived to adulthood: Lewis Nixon III and Blanche Nixon. A third child, Fletcher Ryan, died as an infant on May 21, 1922.

He was a vice president of the Nixon Nitration Works during the 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster, and his father was the president. Neither of them were present on the day of the explosion. He died on January 12, 1958, at his home in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.