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). 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. ==Bibliography==