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Charles Stewart Mott (June 2, 1875 – February 18, 1973) was an American industrialist and businessman, philanthropist, a co-owner of General Motors, and the 50th and 55th mayor of Flint, Michigan.<ref name=Leader>Template:Cite news</ref>

Mott is the figure most responsible for founding the Flint Senior College (now University of Michigan–Flint). Mott initiated the idea of creating the college and pledged $1 million toward the project.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Charles Stewart Mott was born on June 2, 1875, in Newark, New Jersey, to John Coon Mott and Isabella Turnbull Stewart. He graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1897 with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 1907 Mott moved his wheel and axle manufacturing firm, Weston Mott, from Utica, New York to Flint, Michigan after an invitation by William C. Durant, then the President of the Buick Motor Company, which was soon to become the General Motors Corporation.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Weston-Mott later merged with GM. For many decades Mott would remain the single largest individual shareholder in the firm, and accumulate wealth in excess of $800 million. His closest proteges at the helm of GM were Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Charles Kettering.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1921, Mott became chief of the GM Advisory Staff at the Detroit headquarters. He served on the GM Board of Directors for 60 years, from 1913 until his death in 1973. He was Mayor of the City of Flint in 1912–1913 and was defeated for re-election in 1914, but was again elected in 1918. In 1920, he ran in the Republican primary for governor of Michigan. In 1924 and 1940, he was a Michigan delegate to the Republican National Convention. He was selected as a Republican presidential elector candidate for Michigan in 1964. Mott purchased U.S. Sugar in 1931.<ref name=Leader/>

Philanthropy

In 1926, Mott established the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1965, Mott donated $6.5 million to the University of Michigan to help the university build its first children's hospital.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Due to his donation, the equivalent of $50 million in 2021, the university named the children's hospital in honor of him. The 200 bed hospital would go on to serve about 3,500 children in its first year of operation.<ref name="Health System Publications">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1972, Mott received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

C.S. Mott married Ethel Culbert Harding in 1900 and they had three children: Aimee, Elsa and C.S. Harding. Ethel Mott died in 1924 at age 43 after falling from the window of her second-story bedroom.<ref name=Ethelsobit>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1927, Mott married his second wife Mitlies Rathburn (1892-1928).<ref name=Marriage2>Template:Cite news</ref> She died on February 26, 1928.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In March 1929, Mott married his third wife, Dee Furey (1899-1986), and filed for divorce in October of the same year.<ref name=3rdwife>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1934 Mott married his fourth wife, Ruth Rawlings,<ref name=Mottsobit>Template:Cite news</ref> with whom he also had three children: Susan Elizabeth, Stewart Rawlings, and Maryanne.<ref name=Leader/>

Applewood

C.S. Mott's Flint, Michigan estate, Applewood, was built in 1916 as a self-sustaining farm for the Mott family. The main residence and grounds encompass approximately Template:Convert, 18 extensively landscaped. They include perennial, rose, cut flower and demonstration gardens, and an orchard with 29 varieties of heritage apples. The Ruth Mott Foundation currently owns and maintains Applewood, which is seasonally open to the public.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Death

Mott entered St. Joseph Hospital in Flint on January 28, 1973, with a cold, and then developed a flu which worsened from there. Mott died on February 18, 1973, in hospital. In response to his death, Flint City Mayor Francis E. Limmer declared a seven-day mourning period in the city. He was laid in state at St. Paul's Episcopal Church before being interred at in the Mott family mausoleum in Glenwood Cemetery.<ref name = "death">Template:Cite news</ref>

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References

External links

Ruth Mott Foundation
Mott Foundation
The Life of Charles Stewart Mott: Industrialist, Philanthropist, Mr. Flint by Edward Renehan (University of Michigan Press, Sept. 2019)
Brief video-clip of Charles Stewart Mott
Stevens Institute of Technology: Hall of Achievement Inductee Video for Charles Stewart Mott

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