Early Years
Lovelace was born in Columbia, South Carolina as one of three children of Virginia and Fred Lovelace; his sisters are Lynn and Karen. In 1981 he graduated with honors from Clemson University, where he was student body president and winner of the Algernon Sidney Sullivan Award for public service and the Norris Medal for overall excellence. It was there he met Mary Atkinson, whom he married in July 1982. They have four children: Ben, Spencer, Erin, and Luke.
In 1985, Lovelace graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Here, too, he was the student body president. He selected the field of Family Medicine and completed a three-year residency at the University of Virginia. In 1988 he moved to Prosperity and opened the Lovelace Family Medicine office in a remodeled farmhouse.
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