Question: From 1966 to 1973 Edward Staley was the chairman of a company founded by who?
Context: Robert E. Nyce is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.  A graduate of Northampton Area Senior High School, Northampton, PA and Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA for over twenty years he was a tax professional working at Lehigh Portland Cement Company, Allentown, PA from 1970 to 1973, Manager, Credit Taxes, Insurance and Payroll at Frick Company, Waynesboro, PA from 1973 to 1975, Senior Tax Accountant for Bethlehem Steel Corporation from 1975 to 1985 and Asst. Vice President, Taxes for Chrysler First, Inc., Allentown, PA from 1985 to 1990.  He was a member of the Tax Executives Institute including Chairman of the State Tax Committee in the 1980s.  During his private sector employment, Mr. Nyce was active in his community of East Allen Township.  From 1979 to 1984 he served as a member and Chairman of the East Allen Township Municipal Authority and again from 2007 to 2013 as a member and Treasurer.  From 2011 to 2013 Mr. Nyce negotiated and helped close the sale of the East Allen Township Municipal Authority's assets to The City of Bethlehem and the Bath Borough Municipal Authority thereby ensuring high quality service of water and sewer for the future for all residents of East Allen Township.  From 1984 to 1990, Mr. Nyce served on the Northampton Area School District Board of Directors as member, Vice Chairman and Chairman.  He also served on the Bethlehem Area Vocational Technical School Joint Operating Committee as member, Vice Chairman and Chairman.  In both capacities, he was responsible for normal business operations and participated in union contract negotiations with staff.  In 1990, Mr. Nyce ran for and was elected State Representative for the 138th PA House District encompassing parts of Northampton and Monroe Counties.  During his three terms in the House of Representatives he served on several important committees: Education, Local Government, Fish and Game, Finance to name a few.  In 1996 he ran for PA Auditor General in an unsuccessful bid to represent the people of PA as their financial watchdog.  Following the campaign, he was hired as the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC).  Mr. Nyce served for eight years in that capacity overseeing two major revisions to the Regulatory Review Act and many significant regulatory issues facing the residents of Pennsylvania.  The PA IRRC reviews all regulations promulgated in PA and provides citizens an opportunity to comment on and affect those regulations prior to their promulgation by the state agency that authored the regulation.  The two exceptions are the PA Fish and Boat Commission and the PA Game Commission which remain outside the regulatory review process.  In 2005, Mr. Nyce retired from state government and now resides in Northampton County.  He has been a member of the Free and Accepted Masons of PA since 1971 and the Rajah Shrine, Reading, PA since the mid-ninety's.  Mr. Nyce is a past member of the Northampton Exchange Club.  Mr. Nyce served in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969.  Having completed his basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Lewis, Washington he was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry Unit, "The Old Guard" at Arlington National Cemetery where he served for about two and one half years attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant, E-6 before taking an early release to return to Moravian College in September 1969.  While serving at Arlington, SSG Nyce participated in former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's funeral, President Nixon's Inauguration and Robert F. Kennedy's Funeral. W. T. Grant or Grants was a United States-based chain of mass-merchandise stores founded by William Thomas Grant that operated from 1906 until 1976.  The stores were generally of the variety store format located in downtowns. The A. E. Staley company was a Decatur, Illinois based processor of corn founded in 1898.  It changed its name to Staley Continental in 1985.  It produced a range of starch products for the food, paper and other industries, high fructose corn syrup, crystalline fructose (under the brand name Krystar), ethanol (fuel) and other agro-industrial products.  A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company was the center of a controversy in 1992 when the company locked out hundreds of workers after the workers had rejected a contract amid accusations by management of destruction and tampering of company property and equipment. Sir George Alan Chapman (born 13 April 1927) is a New Zealand accountant, businessman and company director.  He was president of the National Party from 1973 to 1982, and was described as "one of the National Party’s most influential presidents" by Barry Gustafson.  He joined the party in 1948, and has been chairman of the Young Nationals, an electorate secretary and chairman, Wellington Division chairman, Dominion Councillor, and was party vice-president between 1966 and 1973. Gwyn Edward Staley (July 6, 1927 – March 23, 1958) was an American NASCAR Grand National driver from Burlington, North Carolina. V-Nee Yeh (; born February 14 1959 in Hong Kong) is a businessman and was non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.  He graduated from Milton Academy, Cum Laude '77; Williams College, BA' 81 Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude and Columbia Law School, JD 1984, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  He is a co-founder and honorary chairman of Value Partners Group Limited, the second largest in Asian based fund manager.  He is also the co-founder and chairman of Argyle Street Management, an Asian distressed and special opportunities fund (ranked 22nd in Asia) and Cheetah Investment Management Group, which seeds and incubates other funds / fund managers.  Vnee Yeh is also the past chairman of Hsin Chong Construction, a company founded by his grandfather, until he sold the controlling interest to The Mission Hills Group in 2007.  Yeh is also a Trustee of Milton Academy, MA. Chandris Line was a Greece-based shipping company founded in 1960 by Antony Chandris to operate ocean liners between Greece and Australia.  Initially the company also traded under the names Greek Australian Line, National Greek Australian Line and Europe-Australia Line.  Following a period of expansion, in 1974 Chandris Line merged with Chandris Cruises—a separate company founded in 1960 by Anthony Chandris' brother Dimitri Chandris to operate cruises in the Mediterranean—to form Chandris Line Chandris Cruises.  After 1977 the company concentrated solely on cruising and was rebranded Chandris Cruises.  In 1985 Chandris Cruises acquired Fantasy Cruises, and subsequently their North American operations were rebranded as Chandris Fantasy Cruises.  The company ceased trading in 1996.  All of the company's ships had a chi, a letter of the Greek alphabet, on their funnels.  The chi also acted as a logo for them and their subsidiary Celebrity Cruises. Almac is a New Zealand based kit car company founded in 1984 and located in Upper Hutt.  Almac cars is a part of Almac Reinforced Plastics Ltd fibreglass product manufacturing a company founded in 1971 by Alex McDonald.  McDonald's interest in kit cars started while he was living in England, having purchased a Jem Marsh Sirocco.  Jem Marsh founded the Marcos car company. The Oregon Nursery Company (also known as Orenco) was a nursery company founded and originally operated in Salem, Oregon, United States.  The company later expanded to a site in Washington County, Oregon west of Portland.  The entire operation was eventually moved to Washington County, where the company founded the town of Orenco.  The company went bankrupt in 1927.  Its legacy is the Orenco place name that is still widely used in the Hillsboro area. Edward Staley (1903 – December 9, 1987) was chairman of W. T. Grant, the American variety store chain, from 1966 until his retirement in 1973.
Answer: William Thomas Grant