Banton G. Boone

Banton Gallitin Boone
Banton Gallitin Boone
Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives
	In office; 1875–1877
Preceded by	Mortimer McIlhaney
Succeeded by	John F. Williams
Attorney General of Missouri
	In office; 1885–1889
Preceded by	Daniel McIntyre
Succeeded by	John M. Wood
Personal details
Born	October 23, 1838
Died	February 11, 1900 (aged 61)
Political party	Democratic

Banton Gallitin Boone (October 23, 1838 – February 11, 1900) was a Democratic Party politician and lawyer from Missouri. He was Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1875 to 1877, and Missouri Attorney General from 1885 to 1889.^[1]

Boone was a descendant of famous American pioneer and frontiersman Daniel Boone. He was born in Callaway County and moved to Clinton in Henry County, where he became Deputy County Clerk in 1856. He was admitted to the bar in 1860. He fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War.^[2]

References

^ Lamkin, Uel W. (1919). "History of Henry County, Missouri". Historical Publishing Company.
^ Stewart, A.J.D. (1898). "The History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri: With Reminiscences of the Prominent Lawyers of the Past, and a Record of the Law's Leaders of the Present". Legal Publishing Company.

[1] Lamkin, Uel W. (1919). "History of Henry County, Missouri". Historical Publishing Company.

[2] Stewart, A.J.D. (1898). "The History of the Bench and Bar of Missouri: With Reminiscences of the Prominent Lawyers of the Past, and a Record of the Law's Leaders of the Present". Legal Publishing Company.

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