Newton Booth (December 30, 1825 – July 14, 1892) was an American entrepreneur and politician who served as the 11th governor of California from 1871 to 1875 and as U.S.

Born to Hannah (née Pitts) of North Carolina[1] and Beebe Booth[2] of Connecticut, Quakers,[1] in Salem, Indiana, he attended the common schools.

[3] Booth worked in his father's Terre Haute store, then studied law in the office of attorney William Dickson Griswold (1815–1896).

[8] 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.

[9] Lucius Anson Booth and T. L. Barker retired in 1862, and Joseph Terry Glover (1832–1886), of San Francisco, became a partner in the firm.

[12] In 1873, Booth helped to organize the Dolly Vardens,[13] a new, independent, republican, anti-monopoly political party.

In 1876, the Greenback Party nominated him for Vice President of the United States on the ticket with Peter Cooper.

[20] His wife, Octavine C. Booth (1833–1907), Glover's mother-in-law, Eliza Payne (1810–1873); his sister-in-law, Julia E. Dunn (1839–1923); and his brother-in-law, William Henry Payne (1848–1919); are interred in the Newton Booth plot[1] in Sacramento Historic City Cemetery.

[21][22] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress