2025年1月21日 · Boothe graduated from Episcopal High School and the University of Virginia before becoming a Rhodes Scholar studying law at Oxford University. From 1939 to 1942, he served as city attorney of...

Boothe was classified as a "militant moderate" or "Young Turk", one of a group challenging the Byrd Organization of conservative, mainly rural Democrats led by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd. In 1948, Boothe derailed an attempt by Byrd forces to keep Harry S. Truman off the Presidential ballot in Virginia. [1]

2015年6月10日 · Boothe served as a Democratic Virginia state legislator from 1948-1963. He was a prominent member of a group of legislators known as the "Young Turks" who opposed the entrenched establishment politicians of Virginia government.

2021年12月22日 · By early in the 1950s Boothe and Stuart B. Carter, of Fincastle, were leading a group of legislators called the Young Turks. Many of them were World War II veterans elected by the state’s growing urban and suburban areas. They formed, in effect, an embryonic progressive wing in the Byrd Organization.

2022年10月13日 · Boothe graduated from Episcopal High School and the University of Virginia before becoming a Rhodes Scholar studying law at Oxford University. From 1939 to 1942, he served as city attorney of Alexandria although he resigned that position to become a naval air combat intelligence officer in the Pacific Theater during the war.

1990年2月15日 · Armistead L. Boothe, 82, an Alexandria lawyer who served in the Virginia legislature and fought to keep the state's public schools open in the face of massive resistance to court-ordered...

2022年4月20日 · The year 1966 revealed how much the Virginia political scene had been transformed. Former Young Turks Armistead Boothe and William B. Spong, respectively, challenged senators Harry Byrd Jr. and A. Willis Robertson in the Democratic primary. Spong narrowly defeated Robertson while Byrd won by fewer than 9,000 votes.

2025年1月30日 · Armistead Lloyd Boothe (1907-1990) was a lawyer and state legislator from Alexandria, Virginia. Boothe served as a Democratic Virginia state legislator from 1948-1963. He was a prominent member of a group of legislators known as the "Young Turks" who opposed the entrenched establishment politicians of Virginia government (Smith 17).

1978年1月11日 · A new round of obituaries was written in the early 1950s when the Young Turks, an irreverent band of youthful legislators like Armistead Boothe of Alexandria and former U.S. Sen. William B....

The Young Turks was a splinter group of politicians in the United States within the Republican Party during the early 1960s. The group, mostly consisting of congressmen who had become disenchanted with the course of the Republican Party, worked within the system to appoint their fellow members into leadership roles, so they could take control ...