William D. Love
{{Short description|American judge (1859–1933)}}
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| image = William David Love (1859–1933).png
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| caption = c. 1907
| birth_name = William David Love
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|06|20}}
| birth_place = Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1933|04|16|1859|06|20}}
| death_place = Washington, D.C.
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| occupation = Jurist
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Ophelia Wallace|1879}}
| children = 5
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| signature = Signature of William David Love (1859–1933).png
| party = Democratic
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William David Love (June 20, 1859 – April 16, 1933) was a judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (later the United States Tax Court) from 1925 to 1933.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120642552/us-tax-appeals-board-judge-dies-at/ |title=U.S. Tax Appeals Board Judge Dies at Capital |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |location=Washington |agency=AP |page=2 |date=April 18, 1933 |access-date=2023-03-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Biography
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Born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, Love was a teacher for seventeen years prior to being admitted to the bar.{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0-IWAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA206 |title=Thirteen Members of Board of Tax Appeals Reappointed |magazine=National Income Tax Magazine |date=June 1926 |volume=4 |number=6 |pages=206–210 |access-date=2023-03-11 |via=Google Books}} He practiced law in Uvalde, Texas, where he was the law partner of John Nance Garner for thirty years.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120642850/judge-wm-d-love-of-tax-board-dead/ |title=Judge Wm. D. Love of Tax Board Dead |newspaper=The Hondo Anvil Herald |location=Washington |page=2 |date=April 21, 1933 |access-date=2023-03-11 |via=Newspapers.com}} A Democrat, he served as mayor of Uvalde for eight years, and as a county judge of Uvalde County, Texas, for another eight years.{{Cite news |url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury02lewi/page/n406/mode/1up |title=A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas |volume=II |publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company |pages=287–288 |date=1907 |access-date=2023-03-11 |via=Internet Archive}} He was appointed to membership on the Board of Tax Appeals in April 1925, and thereafter reappointed.
He married Ophelia Wallace in 1879, and they had five daughters.
Love died at the Hotel Roosevelt, where he resided in Washington, D.C., at the age of 73, following a lengthy illness. He was interred in Uvalde.
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Category:People from Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas
Category:Members of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Category:United States Article I federal judges appointed by Calvin Coolidge
Category:United States Article I federal judges appointed by Herbert Hoover
Category:Mayors of places in Texas
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