One of a Thousand/Gooch, Daniel W.

 

Gooch, Daniel W., son of John and Olive (Winn) Gooch, was born in Wells, York county, Me., January 8, 1820.

He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1843. He studied law in South Berwick and Portland, Me., and also in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 1846.

He practiced law in Boston, and was a member of the House in the state Legislature in 1852, and the state Constitutional Convention in 1853. He was elected to Congress, and served in the 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th Congresses, and, resigning from the 39th Congress, to which he was also elected, was appointed naval officer at the port of Boston, which position he held for one year, after which he returned to the practice of the law, in which he was engaged until the 43d Congress, when he was again elected to that body.

In 1875 he was appointed pension agent in Boston, which position he held until 1886, after which he again returned to the practice of the law. During the existence of the joint congressional committee on the conduct of the war, he was its chairman on the part of the House.

Among his speeches in Congress that were issued in pamphlet form are the following: "The Lecompton Constitution and the Admission of Kansas into the Union" (March 29, 1858); "Polygamy in Utah" (April 4, 1860); "The Supreme Court and Dred Scott" (May 3, 1860); "Organization of the Territories" (May 11, 1860); "Any Compromise a Surrender"

Daniel W. Gooch.

Daniel W. Gooch.

(February 23, 1861); "Recognition of Hayti and Liberia" (June 2, 1862); "Secession and Reconstruction" (May 3, 1864).

Mr. Gooch married Hannah H., daughter of John S. and Theodosia L. Pope, of Wells, Maine, and his only living child is William W. Gooch, born September 8, 1857.