James Love (politician)

James Love (born May 12, 1795 in Nelson County , Kentucky , †  June 12, 1874 in Galveston , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1833 and 1835 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Love attended the public schools in Bardstown . Despite his youth, he volunteered in the British-American War of 1812 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Barbourville in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1819 and 1831 he was an MP in the Kentucky House of Representatives . In the 1820s he joined the movement against later President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the National Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1832 Love was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Charles A. Wickliffe on March 4, 1833 . Since he renounced another candidacy in the elections of 1834, Love could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1835 . Since President Jackson took office in 1829, there has been heated debate inside and outside of Congress about its policies. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act , the conflict with the state of South Carolina , which culminated in the nullification crisis , and the banking policy of the president.

In 1837, James Love moved to Galveston in the then independent Republic of Texas . After Texas became a member of the United States, in 1846 he was a delegate to the convention that ratified the new constitution of that state. He then became a judge in Galveston County . He was then employed by the local federal court until the outbreak of the civil war . During the war, Love served two years with the Terry Rangers , a Confederation fighting unit made up of volunteer Texas soldiers. After the war, Love was a judge in the Galveston and Harris Counties Criminal Court . He was dismissed from this position by the commander of the military administration of the Union troops. James Love died in Galveston on June 12, 1874.

Web links

• James Love in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James Love in the database of Find a Grave (English)