Lucille May Grace

Biography Born in Plaquemine,

After the death of her father, Fred J. Grace, on September 9, 1931, she was appointed to succeed him as Louisiana Register of State Lands by Governor Huey Long, before being elected in every leap-year election from 1932 to 1956 (except 1952). but this ability of this office was removed by the 1974 constitution after her death. She also ran in the 1952 Louisiana gubernatorial election, making her the state's first female gubernatorial candidate.

After her unsuccessful gubernatorial bid in 1952, she took over her old position from Ellen Bryan Moore in 1956 before her death in Baton Rouge

She had one son with her husband Fred C. Dent.

She was posthumously inducted to the Louisiana Center for Women in Government and Business Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in 2011.