Robert Stuart, Quaker Oats, ‘America First’ Head, Dies at 98
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Robert D. Stuart Jr., 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 U.S. intervention in what became World War II, has died. He was 98.
He died of heart failure on May 8 while traveling from France to the U.S. with his wife, Lillan, his son, Alexander D. Stuart, said today in an e-mail.