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Mia Love, first Black Republican woman in Congress, honored after her death from brain cancer

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Former Rep. Mia Love died March 23 at her home in Saratoga Springs , Utah , weeks after her daughter announced she was no longer responding to treatment.

The former lawmaker from Utah , a daughter of Haitian immigrants, had undergone treatment for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma.

Love served only two terms in Congress before suffering a razor-thin loss to Democrat Ben McAdams in the 2018 midterm elections.

Love entered politics in 2003 after winning a city council seat in Saratoga Springs , Utah .

She was elected as the city’s mayor in 2009 , becoming the first Black woman to serve as a mayor in Utah .

In 2012 , she narrowly lost a bid for the U.S. House against the Democratic incumbent.

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