William D. Love | |
Birth Name: | William David Love |
Birth Date: | 20 June 1859 |
Birth Place: | Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas |
Death Place: | Washington, D.C. |
Occupation: | Jurist |
Children: | 5 |
Signature: | Signature of William David Love (1859–1933).png |
Party: | Democratic |
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.[1]
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]