Gove was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and attended the common schools there.

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.

He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1877 and was a traveling missionary from 1879 until his death in St. Augustine, Florida, December 3, 1900.

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