John E. Love | |
Term Start: | November 16, 1907 |
Term End: | June 1, 1918 |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Successor: | Art L. Walker |
Office2: | Sheriff for Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory |
Term Start2: | September 1893 |
Term End2: | January 1, 1895 |
Birth Date: | 9 June 1857 |
Birth Place: | San Augustine County, Texas, U.S. |
Death Place: | Mineral Wells, Texas, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic Party |
John "Jack" E. Love was an American politician who served as one of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners from 1907 to 1918.
John "Jack" E. Love Jr. was born in San Augustine County, Texas on June 9, 1857, to John E. Love Sr. and Susan V. Wood. He attended public school in Washington County, Texas and in Huntsville, Texas. He came to Oklahoma Territory during the Land Run of 1889 and eventually settled in Woodward County, Oklahoma. He served as the sheriff in that county from September 1893 to January 1, 1895.[1] He ran for the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1894, but lost the election.
He was elected to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission at statehood and voted chairman of the commission. He was reelected in 1912. He died on June 1, 1918, in Mineral Wells, Texas, and was a member of the Democratic Party.[2]