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==Baton Rouge municipal service==
==Baton Rouge municipal service==
In 1952, Dumas was elected as the Ward II representative on the 12-member Metro Council and served from 1953-1964. He was succeeded on the council by Gaston Gerald of Greenwell Springs, who was later a state senator.
In 1952, Dumas was elected as the Ward II representative on the 12-member Metro Council and served from 1953-1964. He was succeeded on the council by Gaston Gerald of Greenwell Springs, who was later a state senator.
In 1990, Dumas was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Edward Grady Partin, the controversial business agent of the Teamsters Union]in Baton Rouge, who immunized testimony in 1964 had sent [[Jimmy Hoffa]] to prison for jury tampering.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barlowgenealogy.com/Louisiana/laobituaries.html|title=Obituaries: Barlow and Related Families|publisher=''Baton Rouge State-Times'', March 12, 1990, p. 6|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
In 1990, Dumas was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Edward Grady Partin, the controversial business agent of the Teamsters Union]in Baton Rouge, who immunized testimony in 1964 had sent [[Jimmy Hoffa]] to prison for jury tampering.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barlowgenealogy.com/Louisiana/laobituaries.html|title=Obituaries: Barlow and Related Families|publisher=''Baton Rouge State-Times'', March 12, 1990, p. 6|accessdate=May 7, 2010}}</ref>
==Failed comeback bid==
==Failed comeback bid==
Dumas was succeeded as mayor in January 1981 by the Democrat James Patrick "Pat" Screen, Jr. (1943–1994), a former [[Louisiana State University]] [[quarterback]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6386506|title=Pat Screen|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>The author has been unable to determine if Dumas ran in 1980 and was defeated by Screen or if Dumas stepped down, only to try for a comeback eight years thereafter.</ref> In 1988, at the age of seventy-two, Dumas came out of political retirement to challenge fellow Democrat Tom Ed McHugh for the mayor-presidency. He polled 29,109 (29.9 percent to McHugh’s 38,629 (39.7 percent). In third place was state Senator Mike Cross, who received 12,741 (13.1 percent). Freshman state Representative Carl Crane, one of two Republicans in the race, polled only 4,554 votes (4.7 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcpr&rqsdta=10018817|title=Louisiana election returns, October 1, 1988|publisher=sos.louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 27, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> In the general election which corresponded with the [[George H.W. Bush]] and [[Michael Dukakis]] presidential contest, McHugh defeated Dumas, 79,134 (55.5 percent) to 63,519 (44.5 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 1988</ref> McHugh was elected again as a Democrat in 1992 and as a Republican convert in 1996.
Dumas was succeeded as mayor in January 1981 by the Democrat James Patrick "Pat" Screen, Jr. (1943–1994), a former [[Louisiana State University]] [[quarterback]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6386506|title=Pat Screen|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>The author has been unable to determine if Dumas ran in 1980 and was defeated by Screen or if Dumas stepped down, only to try for a comeback eight years thereafter.</ref> In 1988, at the age of seventy-two, Dumas came out of political retirement to challenge fellow Democrat Tom Ed McHugh for the mayor-presidency. He polled 29,109 (29.9 percent to McHugh’s 38,629 (39.7 percent). In third place was state Senator Mike Cross, who received 12,741 (13.1 percent). Freshman state Representative Carl Crane, one of two Republicans in the race, polled only 4,554 votes (4.7 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcpr&rqsdta=10018817|title=Louisiana election returns, October 1, 1988|publisher=sos.louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 27, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> In the general election which corresponded with the [[George H.W. Bush]] and [[Michael Dukakis]] presidential contest, McHugh defeated Dumas, 79,134 (55.5 percent) to 63,519 (44.5 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, November 8, 1988</ref> McHugh was elected again as a Democrat in 1992 and as a Republican convert in 1996.