{{Short description|American politician}} {{other people|Daniel Gooch}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Daniel Wheelwright Gooch | image = Daniel W Gooch.png | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]]<ref>{{cite web |title=GOOCH, Daniel Wheelwright |publisher=House.gov |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/G/GOOCH,-Daniel-Wheelwright-(G000274)/ |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> | term_start1 = January 31, 1858 | term_end1 = September 1, 1865 | predecessor1 = [[Nathaniel P. Banks]] | successor1 = [[Nathaniel P. Banks]] | constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 7th congressional district|7th district]] (1858–63)<br>[[Massachusetts's 6th congressional district|6th district]] (1863–65) | term_start2 = March 4, 1873 | term_end2 = March 3, 1875 | predecessor2 = [[Benjamin Butler]] | successor2 = Nathaniel P. Banks | constituency2 = [[Massachusetts's 5th congressional district|5th district]] | office3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853]] | term_start3 = 1853 | term_end3 = 1853 | office4 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term4 = 1852 | birth_date = {{birth date|1820|1|8}} | birth_place = [[Wells, Maine|Wells, Massachusetts]] (now [[Maine]]) | death_date = {{death date and age|1891|11|1|1820|1|8}} | death_place = [[Melrose, Massachusetts]] | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = Hannah H. Pope | relations = | children = William W. Gooch, born September 8, 1857 | alma_mater = [[Phillips Academy]] (Andover), [[Dartmouth College]] | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Daniel Wheelwright Gooch''' (January 8, 1820 &ndash; November 1, 1891<ref>{{Cite news|date=Nov 2, 1891|title=Obituary: Hon. Daniel W. Gooch|work=Boston Journal|url=https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01200815194211189411599190966|access-date=2020-09-03}}</ref>) was a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

==Early life and education==

Daniel W. Gooch was born on January 8, 1820, in Wells, York County (then part of Massachusetts, now Maine).<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel W. Gooch |publisher=National Park Service |url=https://www.nps.gov/people/daniel-w-gooch.htm |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> He attended public schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, graduating from Dartmouth College in 1843.<ref>{{cite web |title=GOOCH, Daniel Wheelwright |publisher=House.gov |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/G/GOOCH,-Daniel-Wheelwright-(G000274)/ |access-date=24 July 2025}}</ref> He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1846.<ref>{{cite web |title=One of a Thousand/Gooch, Daniel W. |publisher=Wikisource }}</ref>

==Career== Gooch served as a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]], was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1853, and was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the Thirty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Nathaniel P. Banks]]. He was reelected to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 31, 1858, to September 1, 1865, when he resigned. He was appointed Navy agent of the port of Boston in 1865, but removed by President [[Andrew Johnson]]. He was again elected to the Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1875), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress.

He then became a pension agent in Boston 1876-1886, resumed the practice of law and also engaged in literary pursuits. Gooch died in [[Melrose, Massachusetts|Melrose]] on November 11, 1891, and was interred in Wyoming Cemetery.

==References== {{reflist}} {{CongBio|G000274}} Retrieved on 2009-04-07 *{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Rand |editor-first=John C. |editor-link=s:Author:John Clark Rand |date=1890 |title=Gooch, Daniel W. |title-link=s:One of a Thousand/Gooch, Daniel W. |encyclopedia=[[s:One of a Thousand|One of a Thousand]]: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A. D. 1888–'89 |location=Boston |publisher=First National Publishing Company |pages=252–253}}

==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Daniel W. Gooch}}

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