Harold Moses Love Jr. is a Democratic member of the

Tennessee House of Representatives The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Constitutional requirements According to the state constitution of 1870, this body is to consi ...

, for the 58th District. He is the House Democratic assistant leader and President-Elect of The

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. Love's father, Harold Moses Love Sr., was a

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city councilman from 1962 to 1970 and a member of the

for the 54th District from 1968 to 1994.

Early life and education

Harold M. Love., Jr. was born 1972 in Nashville, Tennessee, to Rep. Harold M. Love, Sr. and Mary Y. Love. He is the youngest of five children and the only son. Love was educated in Metro

Public Schools and graduated with honors from

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in 1990. He received his Bachelor's in economics and finance with a minor in political science in 1998 from

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, a master's degree in theological studies from

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

School of Divinity in 1994 and a Ph.D. in public policy and administration from

in 2017. While in undergraduate school, he marched in the

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and is a member of Rho Psi chapter of

Omega Psi Phi Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. () is a historically African-American fraternity. The fraternity was founded on November 17, 1911, by three Howard University juniors Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman, and their faculty a ...

fraternity.

Career

Love began serving in the

for the 58th District in 2012. He serves on the following House Committees: Education, State Government, Consumer and human resources. In addition he serves on the Tennessee Advisory Commission for Intergovernmental Relations(TACIR) and the Tennessee Second Look Commission. Love was ordained by the

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(A.M.E.) Church in 1999 and was assigned to Pastor Hopewell A.M.E. Church in Columbia, Tennessee. From October 2002 to November 2016, he was the pastor of St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 2015 was also the Presiding Elder of the South Nashville District of the A.M.E. Church. On November 21, 2016, he was appointed pastor of Lee Chapel A.M.E. Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

Personal life

Love is married to the former Leah Dupree, who is an attorney and serves as the government affairs officer at

. The couple resides in North Nashville

References

External links

Legislative website

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