In 1947, President Harry S Truman appointed him as the first chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission for Education Exchange, which he led for four years. Branscomb remained active in the years after he retired from Vanderbilt. He was a member and vice-chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Unesco General Conference in Paris in 1964. The following year he chaired the U.S. Delegation to the World Conference on the Eradication of Illiteracy held in Tehran. Branscomb is survived by three sons, a brother, two sisters, nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
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