William Lathrop Love (born July 27, 1872; date of death unknown) was an American physician and politician from New York.
Throughout his tenure he remained active in the debates on crime and punishment and, for example, introduced legislation allowing children born in penal institutions to remain with their mothers for two years; advocated the segregation of hardened criminals;[2] and endorsed the National Prison Group's proposal to replace jails with industrial farms.
[3] In 1932, Love was the only Democratic state senator who voted for granting additional funds to the Seabury Commission to continue the investigation of corruption in New York City.
In 1935, Love defended his history of having solicited business from the Consolidated Gas Company during his state senate service.
In 1951, he was found wandering in the rain in a Richmond, Virginia, neighborhood, with no idea of how he had gotten there from his home in Long Island, New York.