Grace L. Drake was born, on May 25, 1926, in
New London, Connecticut and graduated from
Williams Memorial Institute, in New London, in 1944. She later moved to
Solon, Ohio and was a photographer and a studio manager. During her tenure in the Senate she advocated for the Ohio State University-Agricultural Technical Institute in
Wooster, and the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, establishing legislation that transferred ownership of the surrounding land to the Institute for use as a working farm. In 2003 her work was recognized when the university renamed the area the Grace L. Drake Agricultural Laboratory. Drake died on December 30, 2020, in
Solon, Ohio. ==References==