Samuel F. Gove
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Samuel Francis Gove (March 9, 1822 - December 3, 1900) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
Born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Gove attended the common schools. He moved to Georgia in 1835 with his parents, who settled in Twiggs County. He engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He was also a missionary. Upon the readmission of the State of Georgia to representation was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress and served from June 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869. Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-first Congress, but was not permitted to qualify. Ordained as a Baptist minister in 1877 and was a traveling missionary from 1879 until his death in St. Augustine, Florida, December 3, 1900. He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia.
