Walter Booth (December 8, 1791 – April 30, 1870) was a Major General, manufacturing Entrepreneur, and United States representative from Connecticut.

He attended the common schools and settled in Meriden and engaged in manufacturing.

In 1833, he cofounded the Meriden National Bank, now the oldest of that city, with Silas Mix, Samuel Yale, brother of William Yale, Elisha Cowles, Stephen Taylor, Ashabel Griswold, James S. Brooks, Noah Pomeroy and John D. Reynolds, and they formed the Board of Directors.

[2] He was a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives in 1838.

He resumed his former manufacturing pursuits and died in Meriden, Connecticut in 1870.