Lucy Margaret Grounds (11 September 1908 – October 1987) was an Australian politician. She was the second woman to sit in the

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. She was born in Glenorchy in

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. In 1951 she was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Labor Party member for Launceston, following the death of her husband

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. She held the seat until she was defeated in 1958. Grounds died in

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in 1987. Grounds was posthumously inducted to the

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in 2005 for service to government and to the community.

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