Charles Stewart Mott

Charles Stewart Mott
50th Mayor of the City of Flint, Michigan
In office 1912–1914
Preceded by	John A. C. Menton
Succeeded by	John R. MacDonald
55th Mayor of the City of Flint, Michigan
In office 1918–1919
Preceded by	George C. Kellar
Succeeded by	George C. Kellar
Personal details
Born	June 2, 1875 Newark, Essex County, N.J.
Died	February 18, 1973 Flint, Michigan
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Ethel Culbert Harding Ruth Rawlings
Children	Aimee, Elsa and C. S. Harding Susan Elizabeth, Stewart Rawlings, and Maryanne
Residence	Applewood Estate
Alma mater	Stevens Institute of Technology
Website	Official Profile - CS Mott Foundation
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	Navy
War	Spanish-American

Charles Stewart Mott (June 2, 1875 — February 18, 1973) was the 50th and 55th Mayor of Flint, Michigan.

Early Life

Charles Mott was born on June 2, 1875 to John Poon Mott and Isabella Turnball Stewart.

He went to and graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1897 with an engineering degree. He began working for his father and uncle, Fred Mott who had purchased a bicycle wheel making business (Weston-Mott Co.). After the death of his father, C. S. Mott was appointed superintendent of the company by his uncle. C. S. Mott moved to Flint, Michigan in 1905 after his company merged with the Buick Motor Company making him the original partner in the creation of the General Motors Corporation). The company was later bought by General Motors in exchange for GM stock. Mott served on the GM Board of Directors until his death in 1973.

He was Mayor of City of Flint in 1912-1913 and defeated for reelection in 1914 but was once again elected in 1918 and he was Vice-President of General Motors in 1916.

In 1920, he ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Michigan. While in 1924 and 1940, he was a Michigan delegate to Republican National Convention. He was selected as a Republican Michigan Presidential Elector candidate in 1964.

Honors/affiliations

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University of Michigan-Flint

The Flint College of the University of Michigan was established in 1956, following a campaign, starting in 1946, by Flint philanthropist C. S. Mott and Flint newspaper editor Michael Gorman. Harlan Hatcher, president of the University from 1954 to 1968, supported their efforts. Mott and Gorman envisioned a liberal-arts college connected to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor that was also part of the Flint College and Cultural Development. Their idea was that the city’s postwar prosperity should be invested in College (located in the Mott Memorial Building, completed in 1957), one of several schools within the University of Michigan, offered programs to over 500 juniors and seniors in biological science, business administration, chemistry, education, engineering science, English, history, mathematics, philosophy, physical science, physics, and social sciences. The Charles Stewart Mott Library, completed in October, 1962 and serving both Flint Community Junior College and the Flint College, was the newest building in the College and Cultural Development.

Later on February 18, 1965, before the Flint Board of Education, C. S. Mott gave a prepared speech, reiterating his position that the Flint College remain part of the University of Michigan. He also reassured his support for Flint Junior College. University of Michigan President Harlan Hatcher spoke in support of Mott at the same occasion. This "blue-ribbon" committee, charged by Governor Romney in 1963 with developing plans for higher education, issued its report in March, 1965. Regarding the situation in Flint, it approved the establishment of a four-year campus, but recommended against a branch, advocating instead of a self-governing institution.

After examining studies and holding hearings, in April 1965 the newly appointed State Board of Education issued a position paper on the expansion of University of Michigan Flint College. It concluded that the joint community college/senior college arrangement as it then existed was undesirable and that a four-year college was needed. It commented on the drawbacks to the association with the University of Michigan, noting former President Ruthven's remark against branches in his recently published memoirs, and recommended that the legislature authorize an autonomous four-year college, that the University of Michigan maintain its commitments to currently enrolled students, including recently admitted freshmen, but that the University of Michigan would phase out its commitment in about four years. Finally, the 1972 purchase of land which would become the downtown campus realized what the State Board of Education had advocated in 1965: physical separation from Flint Junior College.

Foundation of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at University of Michigan

C.S. Mott Children's Hospital was opened in 1969, expanded in the 1980s and 90s, construction of a new Children's Hospital began in 2006. Current hospital building is 8 stories and contains 200 beds. Home to inpatient care for children and adolescents, including a 15-bed Child & Adolescent Psychiatry unit and a 40-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Includes 9 operating rooms, diagnostic facilities, rehabilitation facilities, a gift shop, indoor and outdoor play areas, a classroom, and a chapel. New $523 million Mott Children's and Women's Hospital to be completed in 2011. New hospital will be 2 towers: one 12-story inpatient building with 264 beds and 16 operating rooms and one 9-story outpatient clinic facility. Home to several world-renowned specialty centers:

• • Level I Pediatric Trauma Center: One of only 13 children's hospitals designated Level I; features the Sorini Children's Emergency Medicine Center, established by a $7 million gift from Dr. Ernest Sorini.
  • Michigan Congenital Heart Center: International referral center; widely regarded as best congenital heart center in the US; conducts 850 heart operations and 600 heart catheterizations per year.
  • Holden Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: 40-bed facility, one of the largest neonatal ICU's in the country. Unit will expand to 46 private beds when the new Children's Hospital is completed.
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): Technology developed at U-M; provides temporary heart and lung assistance in the intensive care setting. Approximately 90-130 patients undergo ECMO treatment at UMHS per year, many of them flown to the Health System from across the country by the UMHS Survival Flight program.
  • Pediatric Liver Transplant Program: One of the largest programs in the nation; provides children with cadaveric or live donor transplants.
  • Regional Infectious Containment Unit: A special 32-bed unit that will occupy the top floor of the new hospital to be completed in 2011. All beds will be negative pressure and will serve as an isolation unit in case pandemic, bioterrorism, or serious infectious crisis. One of the first units of its kind in the nation.

A new facility is scheduled to open in 2012 and will total 1.1 million gross square feet. The $750 million facility that will be one of the largest children's hospitals in the nation. The new facility will include a 9-story tower for clinic space, and a 12-story tower devoted to inpatient care that will bridge inpatient and outpatient services within the same medical disciplines to create a programmatic approach to patient care on each floor.

Philanthropy

Charles Mott was known as one of the largest philanthropists in Flint, MI. Among his gifts to the residents of Flint included new shoes and free dental care through his clinic. His foundation continues to operate in Flint, including many programs that help the poor.

In 1926, Mott established the C.S. Mott Foundation out of concern for the welfare of his adopted community of Flint. Through the foundation he started a medical and dental clinic for children, the Mott Children's Health Center, in Flint, as well as the Whaley Children's Center. By 1933 Mott became increasingly interested in public education, and his foundation began to give massive grants aimed at teaching, spreading, and implementing Frank Manley's community education ideas in Flint, MI and beyond. In 1952 he donated 32 acres (130,000 m²) of his Applewood estate to start Flint Jr college that later became Mott Community College. Through his personal philanthropy he helped establish the YMCA and the Boy Scouts in the city of Flint, MI.

The C.S. Mott Foundation is involved with philanthropy in many countries, including Germany, South Africa, Poland, and the US. Some of the main issues for the Foundation are equality and environmental responsibility.

Mott Community College was founded on the estate of the Mott family.

Charles Stewart Mott, High School, Warren, Michigan. Named in his honor.

The Charles S. Mott Prize for the cause of cancer is one of a trio of prestigious research prizes annually awarded by the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.

A building on the University of Chicago's campus is named after him, as well as a building at Kettering University (formerly GMI).

Personal life

Charles Mott married Ethel Culbert Harding in 1900 and they had three children, Aimee, Elsa and C. S. Harding, before Ethel died in 1924. After a brief second marriage, he went on to marry his sixth cousin Ruth Rawlings, in 1934 by whom he also had three children (Susan Elizabeth, Stewart Rawlings, and Maryanne Mott).

Applewood (Mott Estate)

His Flint, Michigan estate, Applewood, was built in 1916 as a self-sustaining farm for the Charles Stewart Mott Family and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The main residence and grounds encompass approximately 34 acres (140,000 m²), 18 extensively landscaped. They include perennial, rose, cut flower and demonstration gardens, and an orchard with 29 varieties of heritage apples. The original gatehouse, barn and chicken coop complete the estate. The Ruth Mott Foundation currently maintains Applewood .

External links

• Charles Stewart Mott's insistence of expansion of University of Michigan in Flint
• Official U-M Health System : C.S. Mott Children's Hospital ranking