Born in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, Love was a teacher for seventeen years prior to being admitted to the bar.[1][2] He practiced law in Uvalde, Texas,[1] where he was the law partner of John Nance Garner for thirty years.[3] A Democrat, he served as mayor of Uvalde for eight years, and as a county judge of Uvalde County, Texas, for another eight years.[2][4] He was appointed to membership on the Board of Tax Appeals in April 1925, and thereafter reappointed.[2]
He married Ophelia Wallace in 1879, and they had five daughters.[4]
Love died at the Hotel Roosevelt, where he resided in Washington, D.C., at the age of 73, following a lengthy illness.[1] He was interred in Uvalde.[3]