William T. Boothby
Republican
| Website: | cocktailbillboothby.com |
Candidate Biography:
William T. "Cocktail Bill" Boothby
Born: November 10, 1862 in San Francisco, CA
Died: August 4, 1930 in San Francisco, CA
- BEVERAGE: A cocktail, the "Boothby Cocktail", was named for the famed bartender.
- An interesting article on Boothby can be found in the California State Library Foundation Bulletin #95, with the article starting on page 13.
- PUBLISHED: As noted in the above article, the Anchor Brewing Company announced that it was reprinting the "Cocktail Boothby's American Bartender: The New Anchor Distilling Edition" which it first published in 1891.
- PUBLISHED: "The 1908 edition of The World's Drinks & How To Mix Them begins "To the liquor dealers of San Francisco who unanimously assisted in my election to the Legislature by an unprecedented majority." (Source)