1. Newton Booth was an American entrepreneur and politician who served as the 11th governor of California from 1871 to 1875 and as US Senator from California from 1875 to 1881.
17 Facts About Newton Booth
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Newton Booth was the only member of the Anti-Monopoly Party elected to the US Senate.
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In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Newton Booth moved from Salem to Terre Haute, Indiana.
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Newton Booth worked in his father's Terre Haute store, then studied law in the office of attorney William Dickson Griswold.
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Newton Booth was admitted to the bar in 1849 and became a partner in Griswold's law firm.
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In 1850, Newton Booth traveled to Panama, continuing by ship to San Francisco.
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When Newton Booth arrived in Sacramento, the first cholera epidemic was spreading, and he went to Amador County, where he was sick for some time.
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The Kleinhaus retired in 1860, and Newton Booth again entered the firm.
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In 1869, Lucius Anson Newton Booth was working in SF and living in Oakland.
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Newton Booth returned to Terre Haute in 1856 and engaged in the practice of law with future US Congressman Harvey D Scott.
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In 1860, Newton Booth returned to Sacramento and the wholesale mercantile business.
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In 1871, Newton Booth was elected the eleventh governor of California, serving from December 8,1871, to February 27,1875.
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In 1873, Newton Booth helped to organize the Dolly Vardens, a new, independent, republican, anti-monopoly political party.
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Newton Booth was not a candidate for reelection in 1880.
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However, Booth declined the nomination and Samuel F Cary replaced him.
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Newton Booth married the widow of Joseph Terry Glover, his business partner, Octavine C Glover on 9 February 1892, in Sacramento, where he died, in July 1892.
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Newton Booth was the uncle of author Booth Tarkington, son of his sister Elizabeth Booth, who was raised in Terre Haute.