Walter B. Stults *49

Walter Stults, who in 1946 received a Woodrow Wilson national fellowship to Princeton from the still-existing program founded in 1945 by Princeton Professor Whitney J. Oates, died March 29, 2017, at the age of 95.

After attending Hightstown, N.J., public schools, Stults graduated from Williams College in 1943 and served in the Army Air Corps from 1943 until 1946. He earned a master’s degree in politics from Princeton in 1949.

Stults was then a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Robert Hendrickson (R., N.J.) in 1949. In 1950, he became staff director of the Senate small business committee, serving until 1961. From 1961 to 1986, Stults was president of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies, a trade association in Washington, D.C.

After his retirement from the association, Stults was an independent-business consultant and corporate director. In 1992, he and his wife, Ann, whom he married in 1947, moved to a retirement community, where he was a very active member, serving as president of the residents association.

Ann died in 2002. Stults is survived by his second wife, Jean; two sons; two grandsons; two stepchildren; and seven step-grandchildren.

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