Hiram Booth | |
Office1: | United States Attorney for Utah |
Term Start1: | 1906 |
Term End1: | 1914 |
Predecessor1: | Joseph Lippman |
Successor1: | William W. Ray |
Office2: | Member of the Utah State Senate |
Term Start2: | 1895 |
Term End2: | 1897 |
Office3: | Member of the Utah Territorial Assembly |
Term3: | 1894 |
Birth Name: | Hiram Evans Booth |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1860 |
Birth Place: | Postville, Iowa, U.S. |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Children: | 3 |
Party: | Republican |
Hiram Evans Booth (October 25, 1860 – July 9, 1940) was a Utah State Senator and United States Attorney.
Hiram Booth was born near Postville, Iowa on October 25, 1860.[1] [2]
A Liberal and then a Republican, Booth was active in Utah politics for decades.[3] He served in the last Utah Territorial Assembly in 1894, and was a senator in the 1st Utah State Legislature from 1895 to 1897. He was United States Attorney for Utah for two terms, beginning in 1906.[1] [4]
He married Carrie M. Robinson on August 26, 1886 and they had one daughter. However, his wife died in December 1887. He remarried, to Lillian B. Redhead, on May 29, 1889, and they had two children.[1]
He died in Los Angeles on July 9, 1940.[4]