Editing Newton Booth

{{Short description|American politician (1825–1892)}}

{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Newton Booth
|image        = Newton Booth - Brady-Handy.jpg
|caption      = Portrait by [[Mathew Brady]] {{circa}} 1870–1880
|jr/sr        = United States
|state        = [[California]]
|term_start   = March 4, 1875
|term_end     = March 3, 1881
|predecessor  = [[John S. Hager]]
|successor    = [[John Franklin Miller (senator)|John F. Miller]]
|order1       = 11th
|office1 = Governor of California
|lieutenant1  = [[Romualdo Pacheco]]
|term_start1  = December 8, 1871
|term_end1    = February 27, 1875
|predecessor1 = [[Henry Huntly Haight]]
|successor1   = [[Romualdo Pacheco]]
|state_senate2= California
|district2    = [[California's 16th senatorial district|16th]]
|term_start2  = December 7, 1863
|term_end2    = December 4, 1865
|predecessor2 = [[William Watt (miner)|William Watt]]
|successor2   = [[California's 37th senatorial district|E. H. Heacock]]
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1825|12|30}}
|birth_place  = [[Salem, Indiana]], U.S.
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1892|7|14|1825|12|30}}
|death_place  = [[Sacramento, California]], U.S.
|party        = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|otherparty   = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] {{small|(before 1860)}}<br />[[Anti-Monopoly Party|Anti-Monopoly]] {{small|(1874)}}<br />[[Greenback Party|Greenback]] {{small|(1876)}}
|spouse       = {{marriage|Octavine Glover|9 February 1892}}
|education    = [[DePauw University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]])
|signature    = Signature of Newton Booth.png
}}
'''Newton Booth''' (December 30, 1825{{spaced ndash}}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. Senator]] from [[California]] from 1875 to 1881. He was the only member of the [[Anti-Monopoly Party]] elected to the [[U.S. Senate]].

== Early life ==
Born to Hannah (née Pitts) of North Carolina<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> and Beebe Booth<ref name="governors.library.ca.gov">[https://governors.library.ca.gov/11-booth.html Newton Booth Biography] at the [[California State Library]]</ref> of Connecticut, [[Quakers]],<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> in [[Salem, Indiana]], he attended the common schools. In 1841, his parents Beebe and Hannah Booth moved from Salem to [[Terre Haute, Indiana]]. In 1846, he graduated from Asbury College (later renamed [[DePauw University]]), in nearby [[Greencastle, Indiana]].<ref name="nga.org">{{cite web |title=Newton Booth |url=https://www.nga.org/governor/newton-booth/ |website=[[National Governors Association]]|date=3 January 2011 }}</ref> Booth worked in his father's Terre Haute store, then studied law in the office of attorney William Dickson Griswold (1815–1896). He was admitted to the bar in 1849 and became a partner in Griswold's law firm.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery">{{cite news |last1=Armstrong |first1=Lance |title=Former Gov. Newton Booth is among historic figures interred at city cemetery |url=https://www.valcomnews.com/former-gov-newton-booth-is-among-historic-figures-interred-at-city-cemetery-he-was-a-cousin-of-abraham-lincolns-assassin/ |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=Valley Community Newspapers |date=January 23, 2020 |location=[[Sacramento, California]]}}</ref>

== Business career ==
In 1850, Booth traveled<ref>{{cite news |last1=McCormick |first1=Mick |title=TH's Booth family's wide accomplishments |url=https://www.tribstar.com/community/ths-booth-familys-wide-accomplishments/article_b20a4c24-7a15-5a97-bb6a-1f5aaf9b441c.html |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=Terre Haute Tribune-Star |language=en}}</ref> to Panama, continuing by ship to San Francisco.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> [[Central Pacific Railroad]] founder,<ref name="Fulton-1924-CP-UP">
*{{cite book |last1=Fulton |first1=Robert Lardin |title=Epic of the Overland |date=1924 |publisher=A. M. Robertson |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NVMEAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22L.+A.+Booth%22+%22Newton+Booth%22&pg=PA14 |language=en |quote=D. W. Strong, Charles Marsh, and L. A. Booth as the other four directors. ... Sacramento, was a cousin of Newton Booth, afterwards Governor of ...}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fulton |first1=Robert Lardin |title=Epic of the Overland |date=1924 |publisher=A. M. Robertson |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zu1CAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22L.+A.+Booth%22+%22Newton+Booth%22&pg=PA14 |language=en |quote=D. W. Strong, Charles Marsh, and L. A. Booth as the other four directors. ... Sacramento, was a cousin of Newton Booth, afterwards Governor of ...}}</ref> Lucius Anson Booth (1820–1906), a cousin and New York native,<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento">
*{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Win. J. |title=An Illustrated History of Sacramento County, California |date=1890 |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |pages=287–289 |url=https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/genealogy/sacboo.htm |chapter=Newton Booth |via=Golden Nugget Library |quote=Transcribed by: Marla Fitzsimmons}}
*{{cite book |last1=Booth |first1=Lucius Anson |last2=Booth |first2=Newton |title=Lucius Anson Booth letter to Newton Booth: San Francisco |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79263296 |language=English |date=1849 |oclc=79263296}}
</ref> and Thomas Morton Lindley Sr. (1819–1896),<ref name="oac.cdlib-Lindley">
{{cite web |title=Register of the Lindley Family Papers, 1890-1928 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf838nb68z/entire_text/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=7 February 2022}}
</ref> in 1849, began the firm of Lindley & Booth.<ref name="Willis-1913-History-Sacto">{{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=William Ladd |title=History of Sacramento County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present |date=1913 |publisher=Historic Record Company  |pages=239–243 |chapter=Newton Booth |isbn=9783849675011 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FRU1AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22L.+A.+Booth%22+%22Newton+Booth%22&pg=PA239 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> The epidemic, reportedly, ended in three weeks.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> In May 1850, John Forshee, Lucius Anson Booth and John Dye established Forshee, Booth & Co.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> In the spring of 1851, Lucius Anson Booth and John Dye retired from Forshee, Booth & Co.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> In February, 1851, Charles Smith and Newton Booth established a business of Smith & Booth., on J Street, between 4th and 5th streets.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/><ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> Kleinhaus & Co., established in 1852, Theodore P. and David W. Kleinhaus as partners.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/>

The firms suffered from the [[History of Sacramento, California|Sacramento Fire of November 2, 1852]].<ref name="sachistorymuseum-Day-in-History">{{cite web |title=This Day in History |url=http://sachistorymuseum.org/field-trips/fun-facts/ |website=Sacramento History Museum |access-date=7 February 2022 |date=23 February 2015 |quote=November 2, 1852: On this day in 1852, Sacramento’s great fire, known as the Great Conflagration, burned more than 80 percent of the structures in the city.}}</ref><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> Soon after Lucius Anson Booth, one of the organizers of Lindley & Booth, became a partner, and the firm assumed the name of Booth & Co. and continued until 1856, when Newton Booth retired and returned to Indiana, while the firm consolidated with Kleinhaus & Co., but the name was not changed from Booth & Co.<ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> In 1856, C. T. Wheeler and T. L. Barker were admitted as partners.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> The Kleinhauses retired in 1860, and Newton Booth again entered the firm.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> 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.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> In 1869, Lucius Anson Booth was working in SF and living in Oakland.<ref name="Langley-1869-Dir-SF">{{cite book |last1=Langley |first1=Henry G. |title=The San Francisco directory for the year 1869 |date=1869 |publisher=Commercial Steam Presses, S.D. Valentine & Sons |location=San Francisco |page=106 |url=https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscodire1869langrich |quote=Booth, Lucius A., real estate, office room 4, 402 Front, residence Oakland}}</ref> In December 1871, business was established in San Francisco in connection with W. W. Dodge.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/> The firm in 1878 was composed of Newton Booth, C. T. Wheeler, Joseph Terry Glover and W. W. Dodge.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/>

Newton Booth made his fortune as a saloon keeper.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

He returned to Terre Haute in 1856 and engaged in the practice of law with future U.S. Congressman [[Harvey D. Scott]].<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> In the summer of 1857 Booth traveled through Europe.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/>

== Political career ==
In 1860, Booth returned to Sacramento and the wholesale mercantile business.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/> He campaigned for [[Abraham Lincoln]] for president.<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> In 1862, he was elected to the [[California State Senate]], serving from 1863 to 1865. In [[1871 California gubernatorial election|1871]], Booth was elected the eleventh [[governor of California]], serving from December 8, 1871, to February 27, 1875. Booth openly sought black support.<ref name="eric.ed.gov-ED108998">{{cite journal |last1=Hendrick |first1=Irving G. |title=Public Policy Toward the Education of Non-White Minority Group Children in California, 1849-1970. Final Report. |date=March 1975 |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED108998.pdf |access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref>

[[File:The New Elaine.jpg|thumb|left|275px|An early political caricature poster mocking [[California Republican Party|California Republicans']] support of a [[local option]] for alcohol, {{circa}} 1870s]]
In 1873, Booth helped to organize the ''Dolly Vardens'',<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080704055219/http://www.californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/biography/governor_11.html Newton Booth Biography] at ''californiagovernors.ca.gov''</ref> a new, independent, republican, anti-[[monopoly]] political party.<ref name="Pacific Rural Press 1872 Dolly Vardens" >{{cite news |title=Dolly Vardens |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18720601.2.34.4 |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=[[Pacific Rural Press]] |publisher=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] |date=1 June 1872 |quote=Volume 3, Number 22}}</ref> The party was named for a calico pattern composed of many different colors and figures, alluding to a political party made up of "sore heads from any party or by any name".<ref name="governors.library.ca.gov"/> With their support, he was elected to the [[U.S. Senate]] as a member of the [[Anti-Monopoly Party]] in [[1873 United States Senate election in California|December 1873]], serving from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881. He was not 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 [[Forty-fifth United States Congress|45th Congress]]. In 1876, the [[United States Greenback Party|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. As of 2021, Booth remains the only senator from California who served as a member of a third party.

After serving in Congress, he returned to his wholesale mercantile business in Sacramento.<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus"/><ref name="Davis-1890-History-Sacramento"/>

== Personal life ==
[[File:Newton Booth Grave.jpg<!-- |left -->|thumb|Booth Gravesite<ref name="tour"/><ref name="hmdb.org-12425"/>]]
He married the widow of Joseph Terry Glover,<ref name="Parkison-1878-Portraits-Sacto-Bus">
*{{cite book |last1=Parkinson |first1=R. R. |title=Pen Portraits: Autobiographies of State Officers, Legislators, Prominent Business and Professional Men of the Capital of the State of California; Also of Newspaper Proprietors, Editors, and Members of the Corps Reportorial |date=1878 |publisher=Alta California Print |location=[[San Francisco]] |pages=115–116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fhw1AQAAMAAJ |language=en |oclc=812130002 |via=[[google books]]}}
*{{cite book |last1=Parkinson |first1=R. R. |title=Pen portraits; autobiographies of state officers, legislators, prominent business and professional men of the capital of the state of California; also of newspaper proprietors, editors, and members of the corps reportorial. |date=1878 |publisher=Alta California Print |location=[[San Francisco]] |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89072936792 |language=en |oclc=812130002 |via=[[Hathi Trust]]}}
*{{cite book |title=Californiana (bookseller catalog #11) |date=1926 |publisher=Newbegin's |location=San Francisco |page=24 |edition= |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-zvrYCSsw0C&dq=%22Alta+California%22&pg=PA24 |language=en |chapter=Pen Portraits}}
*{{cite book |author1=California Historical Records Survey Project |title=A Check List of California Non-documentary Imprints, 1833-1855 |date=1942 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_7js7Od7DscC&dq=%22Alta+California+Print%22&pg=PP79 |language=en |quote=Alta California Print}}
*{{cite book |title=Catalogue 134 |date=1941 |publisher=Edward Eberstadt & Sons |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zU1OAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Alta+California+Shipping+List%22&pg=PA31 |language=en |chapter=Alta California Shipping List, 1849. Woodworth and Morris; [[San Francisco]]: Alta California Print.}} [https://cmu.marmot.org/Record/.b12397283 Microfilm] at [[Colorado Mesa University]]; [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1314 Edward Eberstadt & Sons - Collection: Archives at Yale]
*{{cite news |title=ALTA CALIFORNIA PRINTING HOUSE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18690724.2.39&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=9 February 2022 |work=[[Daily Alta California]] |location=529 California Street, San Francisco, California |page=2 |date=24 July 1869 |quote=Volume 21, Number 7065.  This establishment has been in operation since the year 1849 and has become celebrated throughout the Pacific Coast for the elegance and promptitude with which orders have been executed. The prices are satisfactory, as evidenced by the constantly recurring orders from the same parties who have been in the habit of procuring their work here. OUR JOB TYPES and PRINTING MATERIALS Are the most beautiful that could be selected, now used in executing FINE LETTER PRESS PRINTING, SUCH AS BOOKS, CIRCULARS, PAMPHLETS. CARDS, HAND-BILLS. INSURANCE POLICIES BILLS OF LADING, BILL-HEADS, BANK CHECKS. BLANKS, RAILROAD, STAGE AND STEAMBOAT BILLS or EVERY VARIETY, WITH APPROPRIATE ENGRAVINGS. FROM THE FINEST CARD, AND THE MOST DELICATE CIRCULAR, TO THE MOST SHOWY POSTER. |via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]]}}
*{{cite book |last1=Parkison |first1=R. R. |chapter=Booth & Co., Wholesale Grocers. - Sacramento Large Business Houses, 1878 |title=Pen Portraits |date=1878 |location=San Francisco |pages=113–142 |url=https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~npmelton/genealogy/bus.htm  |via=Golden Nugget Library |quote=Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton}}
</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18710421.2.27.2|title=Sacramento Daily Union 21 April 1871 — California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18740718.2.47.3|title=Sacramento Daily Union 18 July 1874 — California Digital Newspaper Collection}}</ref> his business partner, Octavine C. Glover<ref name="SDU18950504.2.43.2">{{cite news |title=Octavine Booth, the widow of ex-Governor Booth, for the fine oil portrait of him which she presented to the State last winter |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18950504.2.43.2 |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=[[Sacramento Daily Union]] |publisher=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] |date=4 May 1895}}</ref> (1833–1907) on 9 February 1892, in Sacramento, where he died, in July 1892.<ref name="Sacramento Daily Union 1892">{{cite news |title=NEWTON BOOTH. Death Overtakes Him Suddenly and Unexpectedly |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18920715.2.20 |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=[[Sacramento Daily Union]] |publisher=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] |date=15 July 1892}}</ref> 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<ref name="valcomnews-newton-booth-city-cemetery"/> in [[Sacramento Historic City Cemetery]].<ref name="tour">{{cite book| title=Self Guided Tour| publisher=Historic City Cemetery, Inc.| date=January 2006| access-date=January 29, 2011| url=http://www.oldcitycemetery.com/images/PDF/SelfTour.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209075708/http://oldcitycemetery.com/images/PDF/SelfTour.pdf| archive-date=December 9, 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="hmdb.org-12425">{{cite web |title=Newton Booth, Sacramento City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway, Sacramento CA 95818 |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=12425 |website=[[Historical Marker Database]] |access-date=7 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

He was the uncle of author [[Booth Tarkington]], son of his sister Elizabeth Booth, who was raised in [[Terre Haute]].<ref>{{cite web |title=John S. Tarkington Papers, 1844-1923 (Bulk 1910-1923) |url=https://indianahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/john-s-tarkington-papers-1844-1923.pdf |access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="tribstar-booth-family">{{cite news |title=The Booth Family of Terre Haute |url=https://www.tribstar.com/community/the-booth-family-of-terre-haute/article_f566233e-00ce-5d5a-b707-704242b17738.html |access-date=7 February 2022 |work=[[Terre Haute Tribune-Star]] |language=en}}</ref>

==Recognition==
* Sacramento's [[Newton Booth Historic District|Newton Booth neighborhood]] was named for him.<ref>[https://www.cityofsacramento.org/economic-development/community-engagement/neighborhood-directory/District4/Newton-Booth-Neighborhood-Association City of Sacramento - Newton Booth Neighborhood Association City of Sacramento]</ref>
* [[Native Sons of the Golden West]] historical plaque in front of the [[Booth Company]] wholesale grocery Building 1017 Front Street in Old Sacramento.<ref>{{cite web |title=38°34'58.8"N 121°30'20.0"W · Front St, Sacramento, CA 95814 |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B034'58.8%22N+121%C2%B030'20.0%22W/@38.5830443,-121.5056412,3a,15y,126.55h,88.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0IlMeF5TGFSlcAg0kBr-NA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf3107631712aeb65!8m2!3d38.583!4d-121.50555 |website=[[Google Maps]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Booth Building - Sacramento, CA |url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHBER_Booth_Building_Sacramento_CA |website=Waymarking.com |access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Newton Booth, oval portrait.jpg|Booth in an undated portrait
File:Newton Booth by Bradley & Rulofson.jpg|Booth in an undated portrait
File:Governor Elect Newton Booth.jpg|Engraving of Booth in ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'', 1871
File:NewtonBooth.jpg|Booth's official gubernatorial portrait
</gallery>

==Further reading==
* Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. ''Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789–1978''. Vol. 1. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols.
* Melendy, H. Brett; Gilbert, Benjamin F. ''The Governors of California: From Peter H. Burnett to Edmund G. Brown''. Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965.
* [http://www.assembly.ca.gov/clerk/BILLSLEGISLATURE/documents/CA_Leg_Handbook_2003/LegHandbook_Sec11.pdf Governors of California 1849-2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615194307/http://www.assembly.ca.gov/clerk/BILLSLEGISLATURE/documents/CA_Leg_Handbook_2003/LegHandbook_Sec11.pdf |date=2010-06-15 }} [[California State Assembly]]
* Schaechtele, Molly Shoemaker. ''The Governors of California and their Portraits''. California State Capitol Museum Volunteer Association, 1995.
* Tinkham, George H. ''California Men and Events: Time 1769 – 1890''. Record Publishing, 1915.
* FLASHES FROM THE WIRES. ''Los Angeles Times'', 10 Feb 1892.

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{cite web |title=Booth, Newton, 1825-1892 |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6gb2nm9 |website=[[Social Networks and Archival Context]] ([[SNAC]])}}
*{{cite book |last1=Booth |first1=Newton |editor1-last=Crane |editor1-first=Lauren E. |title=Newton Booth, of California: His Speeches and Addresses |date=1894 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn1CAAAAIAAJ |language=en  |via=[[google books]] <!-- https://books.google.com/books?id=as1KAAAAMAAJ -->}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210518011206/https://factcards.califa.org/gov/booth.html Newton Booth < California Governors < Social Studies Fact Cards] < [[List of Library consortia|Califa library consortium]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080704055219/http://www.californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/biography/governor_11.html Newton Booth Biography] at ''californiagovernors.ca.gov''
* [https://governors.library.ca.gov/11-booth.html Newton Booth Biography] at the [[California State Library]] 
* {{cite web |title=Newton Booth |url=https://www.nga.org/governor/newton-booth/ |website=[[National Governors Association]]|date=3 January 2011 }}
* {{cite web |title=Newton Booth |url=http://www.politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booth.html |website=The Political Graveyard}}
* {{cite web |title=Newton BOOTH, Congress, CA (1825-1892) |url=https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/government-politics/newton-booth-ca |website=Infoplease |publisher=Sandbox Networks, Inc. |language=en}}
* {{cite web |title=Booth, Newton |url=http://digitalcollections.lclark.edu/index.php/items/show/34216 |website=Digital Collections |publisher=[[Lewis & Clark College]]}}
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