Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Lovering moved with his parents to Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1837.

During the Civil War served as quartermaster of Engineers in the Second Massachusetts Brigade, consisting of the Second and Third Regiments.

Lovering was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1910 of pneumonia.

His daughter, Frances, married Charles Francis Adams III, United States Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover and a member of the Adams political family.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress