Bill Benton, Autograph American Businessman, Educator Senator Signed Letter

Description: Bill Benton, Autograph American Businessman, Educator Senator Signed Letter Signed first name "Bill" on Encyclopedia Britannica letterhead. Actual color of letter is aged white. Public and elected office life Bill Benton was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and held the position from August 31, 1945 to September 30, 1947, during which time he was active in organizing the United Nations. He was appointed to the United States Senate on 17 December 1949 by his old partner Chester Bowles (who had been elected Governor in 1948), and subsequently elected in the general election on 7 November 1950 as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Raymond E. Baldwin in December 1949 for the remainder of the term ending 3 January 1953. In the November 1950 election, he defeated Republican party candidate Prescott Sheldon Bush, father of U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush and grandfather of U.S. President George W. Bush. In 1951 he introduced a resolution to expel Joseph McCarthy from the Senate. On television, when asked if he would take any action against Benton's reelection bid, McCarthy replied, "I think it will be unnecessary. Little Willie Benton, Connecticut's mental midget keeps on... it will be unnecessary for me or anyone else to do any campaigning against him. He's doing his campaigning against himself." Benton lost in the general election for the full term in 1952 to William A. Purtell. Benton's comeback bid failed in 1958 when, running against Bowles and Thomas Dodd he failed to win the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate.[3] He was later appointed United States Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris and served from 1963 to 1968. Encyclopædia Britannica and further civic life William Benton (C) with Hubert Humphrey and Golda Meir, Jerusalem 1970For much of his life, from 1943 to his death in 1973, he was chairman of the board and publisher of the Encyclopedia Britannica, was a member of and delegate to numerous United Nations and international conferences and commissions, and trustee of several schools and colleges. 110% money back guarantee to be authentic original signature

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