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4 unusual facts about R. Douglas Stuart


Douglas Stuart

R. Douglas Stuart (1886–1975), United States Ambassador to Canada, 1953–1956

R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (born 1916), founder of the America First Committee, CEO of Quaker Oats; and United States Ambassador to Norway, 1984–1989

R. Douglas Stuart

In 1901, they renamed the company the Quaker Oats Company, to take advantage of the brand previously built up by Crowell's Quaker Mill Company.

R. Douglas Stuart, Jr.

Other students who joined Stuart's committee included Gerald Ford, Sargent Shriver, and Potter Stewart.


America First Committee

The AFC was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (heir to the Quaker Oats fortune), along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.


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