Daniel Linn Gooch Explained

Daniel Linn Gooch
Resting Place:Dayton, Ohio
Nationality:American
Successor:Joseph L. Rhinock
Predecessor:Albert S. Berry
Termend:March 3, 1905
Termstart:March 4, 1901
District:6th
Occupation:Pharmaceutical executive
Death Place:Covington, Kentucky
Birth Place:Rumsey, Kentucky
State:Kentucky
Birth Date:28 October 1853
Party:Democrat

Daniel Linn Gooch (October 28, 1853 – April 12, 1913) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and businessman.

Born in Rumsey, McLean County, Kentucky, Gooch attended a private school.After entering the pharmaceutical industry at the age of seventeen, he subsequently became president of a large wholesale drug and chemical company.

Gooch was elected as a Democrat to the 57th and 58th Congresses, between March 4, 1901, and March 3, 1905.[1]

According to the November 1903 Congressional Dictionary, Gooch "takes great interest in patriotic societies, one of his ancestors being a major-general and another a colonial governor; is deputy governor-general of the Society of Sons of Colonial Wars, and governor of the Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors".He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1904, henceforth retiring from public life.

Gooch died in Covington, Kentucky, on April 12, 1913.He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 . GovInfo.gov . U.S. Government Printing Office . 2 July 2023 . 38–39 . 9 November 1903.