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To win the mayor-presidency, Dumas unseated the incumbent fellow Democrat Jack Christian, a former automobile dealer from Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]], and later Baton Rouge. Much of Dumas' four terms as mayor-president was devoted to the development of the downtown municipal complex.<ref name=library/> On Dumas' watch, the Baton Rouge city-parish budget grew from $15.3 million to $89 million annually.<ref name=papers/> However, he was also involved in several [[civil rights]] controversies.
To win the mayor-presidency, Dumas unseated the incumbent fellow Democrat Jack Christian, a former automobile dealer from Vicksburg, [[Mississippi]], and later Baton Rouge. Much of Dumas' four terms as mayor-president was devoted to the development of the downtown municipal complex.<ref name=library/> On Dumas' watch, the Baton Rouge city-parish budget grew from $15.3 million to $89 million annually.<ref name=papers/> However, he was also involved in several [[civil rights]] controversies.
In 1968, Dumas was reelected mayor, when he defeated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, Crayton Green "Sparky" Hall (c. 1925-2014), a native of Columbus, [[Georgia]], reared in Leesville, Louisiana, who was then a project engineer for the Ethyl Corporation of Baton Rouge. Hall soon left the GOP to become the founding chairman of the [[Libertarian Party]] in Louisiana. He left that chairmanship in 1985 and relocated to [[North Carolina]], where he died in Hendersonville, still active as a [[libertarian]] at the age of eighty-nine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/blueridgenow/obituary.aspx?pid=172302243|title=Crayton Green "Sparky" Hall|publisher=''Henderson Times-News''|accessdate=August 31, 2014}}</ref>
In 1968, Dumas was reelected mayor, when he defeated the [[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee, Crayton Green "Sparky" Hall (c. 1925-2014), a native of Columbus, [[Georgia]], reared in Leesville, Louisiana, who was then a project engineer for the Ethyl Corporation of Baton Rouge. Hall soon left the GOP to become the founding chairman of the [[Libertarian Party]] in Louisiana. He left that chairmanship in 1985 and relocated to [[North Carolina]], where he died in Hendersonville, still active as a [[libertarian]] at the age of eighty-nine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/blueridgenow/obituary.aspx?pid=172302243|title=Crayton Green "Sparky" Hall|publisher=''Henderson Times-News''|accessdate=August 31, 2014}}</ref>