"[4] In 1955, as the Massive Resistance crisis escalated, Newton ran for and was elected (unopposed) to the State Senate from the 29th district.
Unlike the Byrd Organization, Newton supported the national Democratic ticket, including its nominee Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.
His 29th District, renumbered the 28th during the 1960 reapportionment invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court in Davis v. Mann, was combined with parts of the new 29th District (consisting of Hanover, Essex and Middlesex Counties and other Richmond suburbs to the west of the Northern Neck and held by fellow Democrat Leslie D. Campbell Jr. of Doswell, Virginia), and renumbered the 26th.
[5] After his retirement from the state senate, Newton continued to practice law part-time, as well as served as director of the Farmer's Bank of Hague.
[6] He is mentioned in papers donated to the College of William and Mary's Swem Library by his son, insurance executive and Northern Neck preservationist, Blake T. Newton, Jr.[7]