Walter Booth

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{{Infobox Congressman

|name=Walter Booth

|image name=WalterBooth.jpg

|state1=Connecticut

|district1=2nd

|party=United States Free Soil Party

|term1=March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851

|preceded1=Samuel D. Hubbard

|succeeded1=Colin M. Ingersoll

|office2= Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives

|term2= 1838

|birth_date={{birth date|1791|12|8|mf=y}}

|birth_place=Woodbridge, Connecticut, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1870|4|30|1791|12|8|mf=y}}

|death_place=Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.

|spouse=Sarah H. Booth

|occupation=Politician, Manufacturer

|footnotes=

| nickname =

| allegiance = {{flag|Connecticut}}
{{flagicon|USA|1834}} United States

| branch = Connecticut State Militia

| serviceyears =

| rank = Colonel
Brigadier General

| unit =

| commands = Tenth Regiment
First Division

| battles =

}}

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

History

Walter was born in Woodbridge, Connecticut. He attended the common schools and settled in Meriden and engaged in manufacturing. Booth was active in the Connecticut Militia. He was a Colonel of the Tenth Regiment, Second Battalion of Militia from 1825 to 1827, Brigadier General in 1827 and 1828, and Major General of the First Division 1831-1834.

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.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/150yearsofmeride00meri/150yearsofmeride00meri_djvu.txt|title=150 years of Meriden; published in connection with the observance of the city's sesquicentennial, June 17-23, 1956|website=Archive.org|language=en|pages=208–210|access-date=2022-11-05}} He served as a judge of the county court in 1834. In 1836, he became President of the Meriden National Bank.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/150yearsofmeride00meri/150yearsofmeride00meri_djvu.txt|title=150 years of Meriden; published in connection with the observance of the city's sesquicentennial, June 17-23, 1956|website=Archive.org|language=en|pages=208–210|access-date=2022-11-05}} He was a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives in 1838. He was elected as a Free-Soiler to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the Thirty-Second Congress.

He resumed his former manufacturing pursuits and died in Meriden, Connecticut in 1870. He was buried in East Cemetery.