List of United States Political Families (B) - The Booths

The Booths

• Newton Booth (1825–1892), California State Senator 1863, Governor of California 1871-1875, U.S. Senator from California 1875-1881. Brother of Walter Booth.
• Walter Booth, Mayor of Paris, Illinois. Brother of Newton Booth.
  • Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), Indiana State Representative 1903-1904. Nephew of Newton Booth.
  • Fenton W. Booth (1869–1947), Illinois State Representative 1896-1897, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1904, Judge and Chief Justice (1928–1939) of the U.S. Court of Claims 1905-1939. Nephew of Newton Booth.
    • John Tarkington Jameson (1889–1963), Indiana State Representative 1921-1922. Nephew of Booth Tarkington.
    • Donald Ovid Butler Jameson (1891–1967), Indiana State Representative 1917-1918. Nephew of Booth Tarkington.

NOTE: Booth Tarkington was also son of Indiana State Representative John Stevenson Tarkington and grandnephew of Indiana State Senator William Clayborne Tarkington. John Tarkington Jameson and Donald Ovid Butler Jameson were also sons of Indiana State Representative Ovid Butler Jameson.