Hiram Booth Explained

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.

Biography

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]

Personal life

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Press Reference Library Notables of the West . II . . 246 . 1915 . 2020-07-25 . Google Books.
  2. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/booth.html Booth at The Political Graveyard
  3. United States Congressional serial set, Issue 4933, Document No. 486, In The Matter of The Protests Against The Right of Hon. Reed Smoot, A Senator From the State of Utah, To Hold His Seat, Volume II, pages 705-742
  4. News: Death Claims Former Utah G.O.P. Leader . . 24 . 1940-07-11 . 2020-07-25 . Newspapers.com.