Robert D. Stuart, Jr. was the politically active heir to the Quaker Oats Co who led the company for 15 years and, as a student at Yale Law School in 1940, ignited the America First movement against American intervention in what became World War II. Politically active throughout his life, Robert D. Stuart was an Illinois Republican Party committeeman from 1964 to 1972 and served on the national Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission in 1991 and 1993. His first leap into politics made history. At 24, Stuart became founding national director of the America First Committee, the antiwar movement begun in 1940 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was attending law school. brisbanetimes.au/comment/obituaries/felt-his-pacifist-oats-against-world-war-ii-20140516-zrejg.html#ixzz32r1YRnBH
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 20:09:51 +0000
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