Late first black Republican congresswoman Mia Love's husband Jason Love worked in software, to make sure that the couple was not completely dependent on Mia's political career.
As per a 2015 interview with Deseret, Jason worked as an executive vice president of Xactaware, a software company in Lehi. Mia Love's death was announced by her family on March 23.
Love died at the age of 49, after she was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor in 2022. Loe served as the US representative for Utah's 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2019 and made history as the first Black person elected to Congress from Utah. She's also the first Haitian-American in Congress, and the first Black Republican woman to serve.
The two met after Love converted to the Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints in 1998 where Jason served as an LDS missionary in Connecticut. The two tied the knot in December, 1998, and moved to American Fork in Utah and then to Saratoga Springs.
While talking about living in a predominantly white neighborhood with Deseret, Jason mentioned that people had been good to them.
"We're in a good place in America. Race relations are good. Look, we've got Barack Obama as president and Mia Love has just been elected to Congress. Skin color is like eye and hair color. The people of Utah have been amazing."
More about Jason Love, Mia Love's husband
Mia Love and her husband Jason Love, had a contrasting childhood. Mia was the daughter of Haitian refugees who migrated to America in 1973. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut. While, Jason spent his childhood in Idaho and moved to Ohio at 10.
As a child, Jason Love worked 12-hour shifts on the farm during the potato harvest in Idaho. After graduating from Pleasant Grove High School, Jason moved to New York to serve a Mormon Mission in the Bronx, Manhattan, and then Connecticut.
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The couple met in 1998, tied the knot in the same year, and moved together to Utah. They have three kids together, Alessa, Abi, and Peyton. While Jason Love worked in Lehi at Xactaware, Mia worked in Washington from 2015-2019. Mia would fly home on weekends and spend one full week per month to spend time with family.
The family also used technology to keep in touch and would set up iPads on the dinner tables to have family prayer and dinner together.
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