Background
Dumont was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1914.
politician member of the New Jersey Senate
Dumont was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1914.
He graduated from Montclair Academy (now Montclair Kimberley Academy), then went on to Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
He served in the New Jersey Senate for more than 30 years, representing the 15th Legislative District until 1982 and the 24th Legislative District until his retirement in 1990. He was the Republican candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1965. After graduating, he became a minor league pitcher for the former Saint Louis Browns but decided to study law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
After receiving his law degree he moved to Phillipsburg in 1940, where he began practicing law.
Dumont was elected in 1951 as a Republican to represent Warren County in the New Jersey Senate. And was re-elected in 1955, 1959 and 1963, during which time he served as Senate Majority Leader, Senate President and Acting Governor of New Jersey.
He was responsible for sponsoring well over 500 bills during his legislative career including the state"s first school aid bill and farmland preservation law. He had made a campaign issue out of the pro-Marxist speeches of a Rutgers University professor, Eugene Doctorate. Genovese and supported the institution of a state sales tax
Dumont returned to the State Senate in 1967 and remained until his retirement in July 1990.
Dumont died at the age of 77 on March 19, 1992, due to congestive heart failure suffered at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. The Warren County Administration Building in Belvidere, New Jersey is named after Dumont.