McPherson People: Jim Loving Came Home to Give Back
The former refinery president was sworn in as McPherson's mayor in January
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MCPHERSON, Kan. — Jim Loving's working life began pulling wire on his father's electrical crews in Wisconsin and peaked in the president's office of the National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA), McPherson's refinery. When it ended, he and his wife Dawn came home to McPherson. "The city had been good to us, and we wanted to give something back," said Loving, 70. In January, that impulse carried him into the mayor's office.
McPherson People is a new Citizen Journal series profiling the residents who shape life in McPherson — business owners, public servants, volunteers and neighbors with stories worth telling. Each installment is drawn from a recorded interview. The series begins with Loving, whose path to city hall traces the arc of postwar American industry.