James Booth Jr.

James Booth Jr. (November 21, 1789 – March 29, 1855) was the chief justice of what later became the Delaware Supreme Court from 1841 until his death in 1855. Early and family life Born in New Castle, Delaware, the son of Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice James Booth Sr., the younger James Booth had a younger brother William Booth (1799-1870) and sisters Maria Booth Rogers (1786–1870) and Elizabeth Booth (1796–1883). He graduated from Princeton University. He married Hannah Rogers, the daughter of Governor Daniel Rogers and they had a son James Rogers Booth (1828–1896) and daughters Anna Rogers Booth Lockwood (1820–1894) and Julia M Booth Burton (1833–1921). Career After reading law, Booth was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1812. Nearly three decades later, in 1841, Governor William B. Cooper appointed him Chief Justice of Delaware's Court of Appeals to succeed Richard H. Bayard, who had become one of the state's two U.S. Senators.