Robert Stanton (park director)

Robert G. Stanton
15th Director of the National Park Service
In office
August 4, 1997 – January 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byRoger G. Kennedy
Succeeded byFran P. Mainella
Personal details
Born (1940-09-22) 22 September 1940 (age 84)
Alma materHuston–Tillotson University

Robert G. "Bob" Stanton (born September 22, 1940) is a retired career civil service administrator who served for almost four decades in the United States National Park Service. He was the first African American to be appointed as the Director of the Park Service, serving 1997–2001.