Francis J. Love

Career

Francis Love attended the public schools of his home and then to 1924 the Bethany College in West Virginia. Between 1926 and 1929 he worked as a teacher at Warwood High School in Wheeling. After studying law at the law faculty of West Virginia University in Morgantown and its made ​​in 1932 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Wheeling.

Love was a member of the Republican Party and was founded in 1946 as the candidate in the first district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on January 3, 1947 to succeed the Democrats Matthew M. Neely. But since he already lost the next election in 1948 against Robert L. Ramsay, Love was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1949, only one legislative period. After the end of his time in Congress, Francis Love again worked as a lawyer. Between 1956 and 1968 he was a delegate to every Republican National Conventions. He died in October 1989.