Mary Lou Kent (October 3, 1921 – March 9, 1981) was an American businesswoman and politician.
She worked as an administrative assistant for the Quincy Chamber of Commerce.
In the 1980 general election, Kent defeated Democratic candidate George Lewis, a delegate to the 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention, for the seat in the Illinois Senate being vacated by John Linebaugh Knuppel's run for the United States House of Representatives.
Her daughter Laura Kent Donahue succeeded her mother in the Illinois Senate.
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