Benton, William, 1900-1973

LC control no.	n 50012170
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Benton, William, 1900-1973 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
See also	Founded corporate body of person Benton & Bowles *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	Q1385494
Birth date	1900-04-01
Death date	1973-03-18
Place of birth	Minneapolis (Minn.)
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Affiliation	University of Chicago United States. Department of State United States. Congress. Senate Unesco Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Legislators Ambassadors Cabinet officers Advertising executives College administrators
Found in	His A new instrument of U.S. foreign policy, 1946. Who was Who in America, v. 5: p. 55 (Benton, William; b. April 1, 1900 at Minneapolis; d. Mar. 18, 1973; co-founder and president, Benton & Bowles advertising agency, 1929-1935; chmn., 1938; vice pres., University of Chicago, 1937-43; assistant secretary of state, 1945-47; U.S. senator from Conn., 1949-53) Biographical directory of the United States Congress, viewed Dec. 22, 2017 (Benton, William, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minn., April 1, 1900; attended Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minn., and Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., in 1917 and 1918; graduated from Yale University in 1921; worked for advertising agencies in New York and Chicago until 1929 and then cofounded his own advertising agency in New York; moved to Norwalk, Conn., in 1932; part-time vice president of the University of Chicago 1937-1945; Assistant Secretary of State, Washington, D.C., August 31, 1945, to September 30, 1947, during which time he was active in organizing the United Nations; member of and delegate to numerous United Nations and international conferences and commissions; chairman of the board and publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica 1943-1973; trustee of several schools and colleges; appointed to the United States Senate, December 17, 1949, and subsequently elected on November 7, 1950, as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Raymond E. Baldwin to the term ending January 3, 1953 and served from December 17, 1949, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for election for the full term in 1952; United States Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris 1963-1968; died in New York City, March 18, 1973; cremated; ashes scattered at family estate, Southport, Conn.) Stole, Inger L. Advertising America, 2021: PDF page 6 (In 1929, William Benton cofounded Benton and Bowles, which quickly became a major Madison Avenue advertising agency at the forefront of radio advertising) <https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jmoa/23/1>