About Andrew Dumont
Andrew Dumont was an American politician.
Andrew J. Dumont (c. 1845 - June 30, 1885) was a state legislator who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives and Louisiana State Senate during the Reconstruction era.
Biography Dumont was born a free man in 1845 in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, to mixed parents and a French father. His ability with several foreign languages made him popular in the job as he could talk to many sailors in their native languages.
In 1881 he was selected along with eleven others to go to Washington to present an address outlining the views of the Louisiana Republicans to President James A. Garfield.
A series of family and financial issues led him to commit suicide by shooting himself with a revolver at his home in Algiers, New Orleans on June 30, 1885. He was survived by his wife and two children.
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Louisiana reconstruction-era American politician
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