John Love (died August 17, 1822) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer fromVirginia.^[1] Decades after his death, during the American Civil War, a man of the same name served in the Wheeling Convention, representingUpshur County, West Virginia, many miles westward.

Love was admitted to the bar in 1801 and began his legal practice inAlexandria, Virginia and nearby counties. He lived in Alexandria for about two years. Both before and after, until his departure to Tennessee in 1820, he operated a farm nearBuckland at the border ofPrince William andFauquier County counties, which he operated using enslaved labor.^[2][3] Buckland Farm, and his brother Samuel's farms in nearbyLoudoun County, became known for breeding thoroughbred racing horses, and were some of the earliest importers of stock from Arabia and Europe. He advertised his prime stud horse, 'Mahomet', in aDumfries newspaper in 1796.^[4]

Fauquier County voters elected Love as one of their representatives in theVirginia House of Delegates, alongside veteran Thomas Hunton, in 1805 and re-elected the pair the following year.^[5] In 1807 John Edmunds succeeded him as delegate, because Love had been elected as aDemocratic-Republican to theUnited 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 theCommittee 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 theVirginia 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.^[6]

Love died inAlexandria, Virginia on August 17, 1822. He was interred at theCongressional Cemetery inWashington, D.C.^[1]

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