Previous to that, 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.
[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.