Robert Young Stuart (1883–1933) was the fourth Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS) of the Department of Agriculture, and was appointed on May 1, 1928, succeeding William B. Greeley.

[1] Robert Young Stuart was born February 13, 1883, on a farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

[2] During World War I he spent two years overseas, from September 1917 to June 1919, under William B. Greeley with the Tenth and Twentieth (Forestry) Engineer Regiments in France.

[4] During the early years of the Great Depression, Stuart led the Forest Service in creating job opportunities for the unemployed on the national forests, including guiding the forestry work of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

[6] Stuart was killed by an accidental fall from a seventh floor window of the Atlantic Building, the Washington DC headquarters of the Forest Service, on the morning of October 23, 1933.