Daniel Wheelwright Gooch (January 8, 1820 - November 11, 1891) was a Republican Congressman from Massachusetts at several points in the mid-nineteenth century. During the American Civil War, he served on the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Gooch was born in Wells, Maine, in 1820. He attended Phillips Andover Academy and Dartmouth College, where he earned a law degree. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston in 1846.