Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Thomas Bell Love

Full Name: Thomas Bell Love
Birth date: June 23, 1870
Death date: September 17, 1948

Terms of Service

Senate, 41st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽¹⁰⁾ & 40th ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ Legislatures
1/11/1927 - 1/13/1931
Democrat
House, 30th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ Legislature
1/8/1907 - 8/31/1907
Democrat
Speaker
House, 29th Legislature
1/10/1905 - 1/8/1907
Democrat
House, 28th Legislature
1/13/1903 - 1/10/1905
Democrat

(1) "Fifteen State Senators Must Seek Re-Election in Summer", 1/3/1930, p. 2. Big Spring Daily Herald .
(2) Thomas B. Love of Dallas (re-election). "Names on the Ballot: List of the Candidates Who Filed Applications with Chairman . . . ," 6/5/1906, p. 3. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Dallas. House Journal .
(4) Thomas B. Love resigned 8/31/1907. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) Lancaster, Dallas County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(6) 41st Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/8/1929, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(7) 40th Legislature - Certificate of New Senators and Roll Call of New Senators, 1/11/1927, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(8) Lancaster. Texas Legislative Manual .
(9) Dallas. Texas Legislative Manual .
(10) Lancaster. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

Photograph. Thomas B. Love, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. Thomas B. Love, State Preservation Board
Photograph. T.B. Love, State Preservation Board
Photograph. T.B. Love, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Thos. B. Love, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Thomas B. Love, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Volume III, Chapter XXXIII, "Some East Texas Banking History," by Thomas B. Love, former State Banking Commissioner and former State Senator, pp. 1337-1384. East Texas: Its History and Its Makers 1940.
LOVE, THOMAS BELL (1870-1948). Handbook of Texas Online .
Portrait and biographical information, pp. 170-172, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928 1984.
Love, Thomas B. (1870-1948) — of Dallas, Dallas County. Political Graveyard: a Database of Historic Cemeteries .
Brief vignettes on members of the 30th Legislature, "Kodaks by the Chaplain," The Houston Post, 5/12/1907, p. 6, col. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
39th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Bell Love. Photo and biographical sketch. "He served in the 28th through the 30th legislatures, becoming speaker in 1907 in his third term while a resident of Lancaster." Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Memorial, January 1949, p. 46. Texas Bar Journal .