Gooch was the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 1873 to 1875.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1865 to 1867; the representative for Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district as a Republican from 1863 to 1865; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1861 to 1863; the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1857 to 1859.
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1858 to Mar 1875, Gooch missed 593 of 2,656 roll call votes, which is 22.3%. This is on par with the median of 22.4% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1875. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
