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==Background==
==Background==
Lucille Grace was born in Plaquemine in Iberville Parish, located south of the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], to Fred J. Grace and the former May Dardenne. She graduated in 1919 from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, near Opelousas in St. Landry Parish. She thereafter received a bachelor's degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge. She was secretary-treasurer of her LSU freshman class, the first woman to have attained that distinction. She was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society, the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]], and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.<ref name=dict/>
Lucille Grace was born in Plaquemine in Iberville Parish, located south of the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], to Fred J. Grace and the former May Dardenne. She graduated in 1919 from the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, near Opelousas in St. Landry Parish. She thereafter received a bachelor's degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge. She was secretary-treasurer of her LSU freshman class, the first woman to have attained that distinction. She was also a member of Phi Kappa Phi honor society, the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]], and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.<ref name=dict/>
Though she married Fred Columbus Dent Sr. (1909–1973), of Baton Rouge in 1933, she kept the name "Miss Lucille May Grace" because that was how voters recognized her. While Miss Grace was of an "aristocratic" bearing, she ran on the "populist" Long ticket and became well liked among her state's voters, both in the Long faction and the anti-Long group as well. A newspaper editor wrote of Miss Grace in 1939 that: "the mere placing (of) her name on a state ticket means she will be returned... to the position of Register of the State Land Office by a larger vote than she received four years ago..."<ref name=lmg>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924112220/http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/women/bio-grace.htm|title=Lucille May Grace|publisher=Internet Archive Wayback Machine through Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=Septembe3r 2, 2019}}</ref>
Though she married Fred Columbus Dent Sr. (1909–1973), of Baton Rouge in 1933, she kept the name "Miss Lucille May Grace" because that was how voters recognized her. While Miss Grace was of an "aristocratic" bearing, she ran on the "populist" Long ticket and became well liked among her state's voters, both in the Long faction and the anti-Long group as well. A newspaper editor wrote of Miss Grace in 1939 that: "the mere placing (of) her name on a state ticket means she will be returned... to the position of Register of the State Land Office by a larger vote than she received four years ago..."<ref name=lmg>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924112220/http://www.sec.state.la.us/archives/women/bio-grace.htm|title=Lucille May Grace|publisher=Internet Archive Wayback Machine through Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=Septembe3r 2, 2019}}</ref>
Miss Grace was regarded as an efficient [[business]]woman and executive. She held the register's position from 1931 to 1952, when she instead ran for governor, and again from 1956 until her death in 1957.<ref name=lmg/>
Miss Grace was regarded as an efficient [[business]]woman and executive. She held the register's position from 1931 to 1952, when she instead ran for governor, and again from 1956 until her death in 1957.<ref name=lmg/>
==Runoff politics, 1944==
==Democratic runoff politics, 1944==
In 1944, [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], who had been governor for an abbreviated term from 1939 to 1940, ran for lieutenant governor but faced a Democratic runoff against J. Emile Verret, a school board member from Iberia Parish. Long lost the runoff to Verret, but he had been the high votegetter in the first primary. If there had been no gubernatorial runoff that year, Long would have been the automatic lieutenant governor nominee. Louisiana law at the time provided that there would be no second primaries for other constitutional offices unless there was also a gubernatorial contest. Long hence could have won if the "Long" candidate for governor, Lewis Lovering Morgan of Covington in St. Tammany Parish, had withdrawn from the runoff with [[Jimmie Davis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.louisiana101.com/rr_earl_long.html|title=Long, Earl Kemp|publisher=Louisiana101.com|accessdate=September 2, 2019}}</ref>
In 1944, [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], who had been governor for an abbreviated term from 1939 to 1940, ran for lieutenant governor but faced a Democratic runoff against J. Emile Verret, a school board member from Iberia Parish. Long lost the runoff to Verret, but he had been the high votegetter in the first primary. If there had been no gubernatorial runoff that year, Long would have been the automatic lieutenant governor nominee. Louisiana law at the time provided that there would be no second primaries for other constitutional offices unless there was also a gubernatorial contest. Long hence could have won if the "Long" candidate for governor, Lewis Lovering Morgan of Covington in St. Tammany Parish, had withdrawn from the runoff with [[Jimmie Davis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.louisiana101.com/rr_earl_long.html|title=Long, Earl Kemp|publisher=Louisiana101.com|accessdate=September 2, 2019}}</ref>