Ludmya "Mia" Love (6 December 1975-23 March 2025) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-UT 4) from 3 January 2015 to 3 January 2019, succeeding Jim Matheson and preceding Ben McAdams.
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Ludmya Bourdeau was born in New York City, New York in 1975, the daughter of Haitian refugees. When she was five, her family moved from Brooklyn to Norwalk, Connecticut, and she worked at Sento Corporation and the Echopass Corporation after college. In 1998, she converted to Mormonism and moved to Utah, and she was elected to the Saratoga Springs City Council in 2003, and she served as Mayor of Saratoga Springs from 2010 to 2014. In 2014, she was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican Party member, and she supported fiscal discipline, limited government, and personal responsibility. She opposed abortion, supported deep cuts to educational spending, supported getting rid of the Department of Education, supported action against climate change, proposed to dramatically reduce food entitlement, opposed same-sex marriage, was a libertarian Tea Party activist, supported some degree of gun regulation (despite receiving NRA support), opposed Obamacare, supported rights for immigrant children, and opposed Donald Trump (including his tariffs). She lost re-election to Democrat Ben McAdams in 2018. On 7 August 2019, as a CNN political commentator, she called on her former Republican colleagues to call out white supremacism, even if Trump would not. On 23 March 2025, she died from brain cancer.
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