Love made headlines when she took the stage at the 2017 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida -- which nominated Mitt Romney, also a Mormon, as its presidential nominee.

"My parents immigrated to the US with 10 dollars in their pocket, believing that the America they had heard about really did exist," she told the crowd.

"When times got tough they didn't look to Washington, they looked within."

Damon Cann, politics professor at Utah State University, said Love is bound for greater things in Washington.

"Since the election of Barack Obama, the Republicans have been more serious about trying to showcase the diversity within the Republican Party," he told the Salt Lake Tribune.

"And Mia Love is potentially the poster child for diversity in the party," he added.

Despite proclaiming her first-black-Republican-congresswoman credentials in her victory speech Tuesday night, Love was keen Wednesday to downplay suggestions that her race or gender won the election.

"I wasn't elected because of the color of my skin, I wasn't elected because of my gender," she told CNN in an interview.

"Understand that Utahans have made a statement that they're not interested in dividing Americans based on race or gender, that they want to make sure that they are electing people who are honest and who have integrity.

"That's really what made history here. Race, gender had nothing to do with it."

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