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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/>
==Democratic 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could have won if the "Long" candidate for governor, Lewis Lovering Morgan of Covington in St. Tammany Parish, had withdrawn from the runoff with [[Jimmie Davis]].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could have won if the "Long" candidate for governor, Lewis Lovering Morgan of Covington in St. Tammany Parish, had withdrawn from the runoff with [[Jimmie Davis]].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>