[4] Trimmier enlisted in the Alabama Army National Guard on January 1, 1951, but was released on August 1, 1951, as the Korean War continued.
[5] Trimmier defeated Mobile's incumbent public works commissioner Charlie Hackmeyer, and began his four-year term in 1961.
[6] Although facing a tax indictment, Trimmier formed a biracial Mobile Economic Commission to help secure federal funds for welfare programs in his city.
Meanwhile, 1964, Trimmier ran to represent Alabama's 1st congressional district, since the Mobile area effectively had no congressman after redistricting cost veteran Frank Boykin his seat.
In response to a petition to consider the topic, he claimed that the petitioner was "fomenting insurrection and threatening to upend the harmony of race relations in Mobile.