Joseph Pierre Dumas (February 19, 1875 – January 14, 1950)https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/247331446/joseph-pierre-dumas was a politician in

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, Canada. He served in the

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from 1915 to 1920 as a member of the

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. Born in

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, Dumas came to Manitoba in 1897. He worked as a construction contractor. In 1898, he married Mary Nisbett., Dumas was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1915 provincial election, defeating a

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and an independent Liberal candidate in the constituency of St. Boniface. The Liberal Party won this election, and Dumas served as a backbench supporter of

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's administration for the next five years. He ran for re-election in the 1920 campaign, but finished third against Conservative-Independent candidate

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. In 1935, Dumas moved to California. He died in

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