John Love (congressman)

John Love (17?? – August 17, 1822) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia. Decades after his death, during the American Civil War, a man of the same name served in the Wheeling Convention, representing Upshur County, West Virginia, many miles westward.

In the 1770s, his father, Samuel Love bought a farm near the border of Prince William and Fauquier counties. Growing up, Love pursued an academic course and studied law.

He was admitted to the bar in 1801 and began his legal practice in Alexandria, Virginia and nearby counties. He had a farm near Buckland at the border of Prince William and Fauquier County counties, which he operated using enslaved labor.^[1][2]

Fauquier County voters elected Love as one of their representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates, alongside veteran Thomas Hunton, in 1805 and re-elected the pair the following year.^[3] In 1807 John Edmunds succeeded him as delegate, because Love had been elected as a Democratic-Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1806, and he was also re-elected there and served from 1807 to 1811. As congressman, Love served as chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia in his second term, from 1809 to 1811. In 1816, voters from the district that included Prince William and Fairfax counties elected Love to the Virginia State Senate (again a part-time position) and he served from 1816, but was succeeded by Redmond Foster before the end of his four-year term.^[4]

Love died in Alexandria, Virginia on August 17, 1822.

• United States Congress. "John Love (id: L000456)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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