F. Harold Dubord
F. Harold Dubord | |
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Maine Supreme Judicial Court | |
In office October 4, 1956 – December 10, 1962 | |
Appointed by | Edmund Muskie |
Preceded by | Percy T. Clarke |
Succeeded by | Harold C. Marden |
27th Mayor of Waterville, Maine | |
In office 1928–1932 | |
Preceded by | Herbert Carlyle Libby |
Succeeded by | L. Eugene Thayer |
Personal details | |
Born | Frederik Harold Dubord December 14, 1891 |
Died | October 14, 1964[1] | (aged 72)
Political party | Democratic |
Frederik Harold Dubord (December 14, 1891 – October 14, 1964)[1] was an American attorney and politician from Maine. Dubord served five terms as the mayor of Waterville, Maine, from 1928 to 1932. In 1936, Dubord was the Maine Democratic Party's nominee for governor, which he lost to Republican Lewis O. Barrows.
Born in Waterville, Maine, to Harry and Mary (Poulin) Dubord, his father was a local government official, and his mother died during his childhood. Dubord attended Colby College, and the University of Maine School of Law,[2] receiving his law degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1922.[1][2]
On June 29, 1955, Dubord was appointed as a justice to the Maine Superior Court by old friend and governor Edmund Muskie.[3] A year later, on October 4, 1956, he was appointed by Governor Muskie to a seat on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court vacated by the retirement of Justice Percy T. Clarke.[2] He retired from that position on December 10, 1962.
Pn May 14, 1917, Dubord married Blanche Letourneau, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Justice F. Harold Dubord Dies In Local Hospital", Waterville Morning Sentinel (October 15, 1964), p. 1, 2.
- ^ a b c d "Six Are Named to Maine High Court Positions", The Lewiston Daily Sun (September 28, 1956), p. 1, 9.
- ^ Wetherill, James (2014-04-01). Ed Muskie: Made in Maine. Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. pp. 118–. ISBN 9780884483922. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
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