Daniel W. Gooch

Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (* January 8, 1820 in Wells, York County, Maine, † November 11, 1891 in Melrose, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1858 and 1875 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Gooch attended the public schools of his home, the Phillips Academy in Andover and then to 1843 Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent law degree in 1846 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he went to work in Boston in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1852 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; a year later he took part in a meeting on the revision of the Constitution as a delegate.

Gooch joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Following the resignation of Mr Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, he was at the due election for the seventh seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 31 January 1858. After four elections he could remain until his resignation on September 1, 1865 in Congress. Since 1863, he was the sixth election district of his state. This period was marked by the events of the Civil War.

In the years 1865 and 1866 he worked until his release by President Andrew Johnson as Agent Navy in the port of Boston. In the congressional elections of 1872 Gooch was then elected to Congress again in the fifth district of his state, where he replaced Benjamin Franklin Butler on March 4, 1873. Since he has not been confirmed in 1874, he was able to complete only one more term in the U.S. House of Representatives until March 3, 1875. Between 1876 and 1886, Gooch worked for the pension office in Boston. He also practiced law. Moreover, he was concerned with literary matters. Daniel Gooch died on November 11, 1891 in Melrose.