comeback bid failed in 1958 when, running against Bowles and Thomas Dodd he failed to win the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. He was later appointed United States Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris and served from 1963 to 1968. Benton served on the board of trustees of the University of Connecticut from 1957 to 1972. Converted to a museum in 1966, the William Benton Museum of Art on the university's main campus in Storrs was named in his honor in 1972. Benton had donated his personal collection of works by Reginald Marsh to the museum. Encyclopædia Britannica and further civic life For much of his life, from 1943 to his death in 1973, he was chairman of the board and publisher of the Encyclopædia Britannica, was a member of and delegate to numerous United Nations and international conferences and commissions, and trustee of several schools and colleges. In 1943 Benton asked Mortimer J. Adler and Robert Hutchins to edit a set of great books to be published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; the 52-volume set of Great Books of the Western World was published in 1952. Benton established the Benton Foundation. The William Benton Museum of Art is named in his honor. He died in New York City on March 18, 1973, aged 72, and was survived by his widow, Helen Hemingway Benton, who died in 1974. See also Muzak, a company once owned by Benton References External links William Benton's Congressional Biography Guide to the William Benton Papers 1839-1973 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center Encyclopædia Britannica 1900 births 1973 deaths American publishers (people) 20th-century American Episcopalians Politicians from Minneapolis Politicians from New York City Politicians from Norwalk, Connecticut Democratic Party United States senators from Connecticut Permanent Delegates of the United States to UNESCO The Yale Record alumni University of Chicago people Connecticut Democrats McCarthyism 20th-century American writers 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American politicians Businesspeople from Minneapolis United States Assistant Secretaries of State