Samuel Francis Gove (March 9, 1822 – December 3, 1900) was a
U.S. Representative
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...
from
Georgia.
Gove was born in
Weymouth, Massachusetts and attended the common schools there. He moved to Georgia in 1835 with his parents, who settled in
Twiggs County
Twiggs County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,022. The county seat is Jeffersonville. The county was created on December 14, 1809, and named for American Rev ...
. He engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He was also a missionary.
Upon the readmission of the State of Georgia to representation he won a narrow election as a
Republican to the
Fortieth Congress and served from June 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869. He presented credentials as a Member-elect to the
Forty-first Congress, but along with other Georgia representatives, he was not permitted to qualify because he had not been re-elected. Because they were unsure when their representatives would be seated, Georgia decided that the election of April 1868 would fill the seats in the 40th Congress and the 41st Congress. The House ruled that one could not serve in two legislature based on the results of one election. He was a candidate for Congress again in 1874 and 1876, but lost both races.
He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1877 and was a traveling missionary from 1879 until his death in
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine ( ; es, San Agustín ) is a city in the Southeastern United States and the county seat of St. Johns County on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabit ...
, December 3, 1900. He was interred in
Rose Hill Cemetery,
Macon, Georgia
Macon ( ), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Georgia. Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is located southeast of Atlanta and lies near the geographic center of the state of Geo ...
.
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1822 births
1900 deaths
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia (U.S. state)
Baptist missionaries from the United States
Baptist missionaries in the United States
American slave owners
19th-century American politicians
People from Weymouth, Massachusetts
19th-century Baptists