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Newton Booth (
December 30,
1825 –
July 14,
1892) was an
American politician.
Born in
Salem, Indiana, he attended the common schools. In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Booth moved from Salem to
Terre Haute, Indiana. Newton graduated from
Asbury University, later renamed
DePauw University, in nearby
Greencastle, Indiana. He studied law in
Terre Haute and was admitted to the bar in 1850. In the same year he moved to
California, where he temporarily engaged in the wholesale grocery business at
Sacramento. He made his fortune as a saloon keeper. He returned to Terre Haute in 1857 and engaged in the practice of law with future U.S. Congressman
Harvey D. Scott until 1860, when he returned to Sacramento, and again engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was the uncle of author
Booth Tarkington, son of his sister Elizabeth Booth, who was raised in
Terre Haute.
Booth was elected to the
California State Senate in 1862, serving in 1863, and was the eleventh
Governor of California from
December 8,
1871 to
February 27,
1875, when he resigned, having been elected to the
United States Senate.
Elected as an
Anti-Monopolist, he served as a Senator from
March 4,
1875, to
March 3,
1881; he wasn't a candidate for reelection in 1880. During his time in the Senate he served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Manufacturers and the U.S. Senate Committee on Patents, both during the
45th Congress. In
1876, the
Greenback Party nominated him for
Vice President of the United States on the ticket with
Peter Cooper. However, Booth declined the nomination and
Samuel F. Cary replaced him.
After serving in Congress, he returned to his wholesale mercantile business in Sacramento where he died in 1892. He is interred in Old City Cemetery.
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