Background
Gove was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and attended the common schools there.
United States representative politician
Gove was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and attended the common schools there.
He engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He was also a missionary. Upon the readmission of the State of Georgia to representation he was elected 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 was not permitted to qualify.
He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1877 and was a traveling missionary from 1879 until his death in Saint Augustine, Florida, December 3, 1900. He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia.