17 Facts About Newton Booth

Newton Booth was an American entrepreneur and politician.

In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Newton Booth moved from Salem to Terre Haute, Indiana.

Newton Booth studied law in Terre Haute, was admitted to the bar in 1849, and became a partner in Griswold's law firm.

Newton Booth worked in his father's Terre Haute store, then studied law in the office of attorney William Dickson Griswold.

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.

The Kleinhaus retired in 1860, and Newton Booth again entered the firm.

In 1869, Lucius Anson Newton Booth was working in SF and living in Oakland.

Newton Booth returned to Terre Haute in 1856 and engaged in the practice of law with future US Congressman Harvey D Scott.

In 1862, Newton Booth was elected to the California State Senate, serving in 1863.

From 1863 to 1866 Newton Booth was a resident of San Francisco.

From 1867 to 1892, Newton Booth lived in Sacramento, on Front Street, between J and K streets.

Newton Booth was later elected to the United States Senate, resigning his governorship.

In 1873, Newton Booth helped to organize the Dolly Vardens political party, and with their support he was elected as an Anti-Monopoly Party member, serving as a Senator from March 4,1875, to March 3,1881.

Newton Booth was not a candidate for reelection in 1880.

However, Booth declined the nomination and Samuel F Cary replaced him.

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.

Newton Booth was the uncle of author Booth Tarkington, son of his sister Elizabeth Booth, who was raised in Terre Haute.