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==Failed comeback bid==

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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>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Return: East Baton Rouge Parish, October 1, 1988.</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.​

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Dumas died at the age of seventy-six after a long struggle with [[cancer]].<ref name=library/> Dumas is remembered through the 18-hole Dumas [[Golf]] Course and the Dumas Memorial Golf Tournament held each April at Greenwood Community Park in Baker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brec.org/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&cpid=561|title=Greenwood Community Park|publisher=brec.org|accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref>​

Dumas died at the age of seventy-six after a long struggle with [[cancer]].<ref name=library/> Dumas is remembered through the 18-hole Dumas [[Golf]] Course and the Dumas Memorial Golf Tournament held each April at Greenwood Community Park in Baker.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brec.org/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&cpid=561|title=Greenwood Community Park|publisher=brec.org|accessdate=November 27, 2009}}</ref>​