Lucille May Grace scrapbooks, 1908-1956.

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Lucille May Grace scrapbooks, 1908-1956.

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The Lucille May Grace Scrapbooks consist of eleven scrapbooks (1929-1950) and political campaign items (1956) of Lucille May Grace, covering state political events, especially for the period 1940 to 1950. They also include two scrapbooks and loose newspaper clippings (1908-1927) of Fred J. Grace, Register of the State Land Office between 1908 and 1931.

127 items.13 v.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6909627

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana. State Land Office

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Grace, Fred J., d. 1931.

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Grace, Lucille May

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Lucille May Grace was the first woman to attain statewide elected office in Louisiana. She became Register of the State Land Office in 1931 on appointment of Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr., succeeding her father, Fred J. Grace, who had died in office. She was elected in her own right in 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1956. Lucille May Grace unsuccessfully ran for governor of Louisiana in 1952. From the description of Lucille May Grace scrapbooks, 1908-1956. (Louisiana State Univer...