sentences:  Woods received his first diplomatic appointment in 1912, when President William Howard Taft named him the United States' Enovy to Portugal, with the official title of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, as the United States had not yet elevated the post to ambassador status.In 1915, Governor Martin Brumbaugh appointed him Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Woods would serve six years in the post, before resigning in 1921 to take-up the post of Ambassador to Spain.