Background
Mott, Stewart Rawlings was born on December 4, 1937 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles Stewart and Ruth (Rawlings) Mott.
Political activist business executive
Mott, Stewart Rawlings was born on December 4, 1937 in Flint, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles Stewart and Ruth (Rawlings) Mott.
Mott attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three years and finished his education at Columbia University School of General Studies, earning two Bachelor"s degrees, one in business administration and one in comparative literature.
He wrote a thesis on Sophocles for a Master"s Degree from Columbia, which he never finished. He gave his occupation as "maverick" in the 1978 photo essay Cat People. Shortly prior to his death Stewart Mott resided in Bermuda for most of his time, and also traveled to his numerous houses in the United States.
His houses included a house trailer on a Florida farm, and a Chinese junk moored on the Hudson River in New York City.
His philanthropy included abortion reform, birth control, sex research, feminism, arms control, gay rights, civil liberties, governmental reform, and research on extrasensory perception.
Founder Flint Community Planned Parenthood, 1963. President, founder Spectemur Agendo (merged with S.R. Mott Charitable Trust 1989), New York City and Flint, since 1965. Board directors Fund For Peace, New York City, since 1967, S.R. MottCharitable Trust, since 1968, National Committee for Effective Congress, New York City, since 1968, Planned Parenthood Federation American, 1964-1981, American Commision on United States-Soviet Rels., 1977-1992, Citizens Research Foundation, since 1977, Americans for Democratic Action, 1978-1990, Friends of Family Planning, 1979-1984, Voters for Choice, 1979-1989.
Board directors, founder Fund Constitutional Government, since 1974. Board directors Population Action Council, 1978-1982. Major donor McCarthy, McGovern, Anderson campaigns.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Kappy Wells, October 13, 1979 (divorced March 1999). 1 child, Samuel Apple Axle.