Frederic C. "Buck" Dumaine Jr. (1902 – March 13, 1997, in

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) was an American business executive who served as the president of the

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from 1951–1954,

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from 1957–1962, and the

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from 1967–1968. He also served as an executive with the

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, and

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. From 1963 to 1965 he was the Chairman of the

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. He donated the land for the original Our Lady of Good Voyage Chapel in Boston.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dumaine, Jr., Frederic C. 1902 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American railroad executives American transportation businesspeople People from Weston, Massachusetts Massachusetts Republican Party chairs Delaware and Hudson Railway New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad

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