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.
Pn May 14, 1917, Dubord married Blanche Letourneau, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.