Kenneth George Booth (23 February 1926 – 1 November 1988) was a New South Wales politician, Treasurer, and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Neville Wran and Barrie Unsworth.

[6] Originally serving in the backbenches, with the election of Neville Wran as Leader of the party he was given the post of Shadow Minister for Education from 13 December 1973 to 14 May 1976.

On 13 August 1979, over a year after their 25th wedding anniversary, his wife Irene died from cancer, aged 47.

[1] When his good friend and fellow left-faction member, Jack Ferguson, retired as Deputy Premier and Leader, Ferguson recommended Booth as his preferred successor, however, following some opposition from within the left faction, Booth lost the ballot to Ron Mulock.

[8] He remained as Treasurer until the defeat of the Unsworth Labor government at the state election in March 1988.

[7] He was accused by the new Minister for Administrative Services, Matt Singleton, of interfering, as Treasurer, with a Government office accommodation deal that resulted in $350,000 in dead rent.

[9] He died in office, survived by his daughter and his second wife, of a myocardial infarction on 1 November 1988 at his home and was cremated.