After coming to Wisconsin, he served as a supervisor for Rutland in 1857, and was elected Town Chairman (equivalent to mayor) in 1859.
In the 1869 general election he was chosen to represent the first Dane County assembly district (the Towns of Albion, Dunkirk, Rutland, Dunn, Pleasant Springs, Christiana, Cottage Grove and Blooming Grove, with 646 votes to 544 for John M. Estes, an "Independent Republican".,[3] succeeding John E. Johnson, who was not a candidate.
He was not a candidate for re-election in 1870, and was succeeded by fellow Republican Lemuel Oscar Humphrey.
As town chairman he was ex officio a member of the Dane County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors.
[2] Their son, Austin Roscoe Loveland (1854–1909),[2] was born in Rutland; he became postmaster of Oregon, Wisconsin in 1897.