Defeat and Later Years
Caused in no small part by Dubois' obsession with anti-Mormonism, Democrats in Idaho suffered significant electoral losses during his second term in the Senate. In 1906, a Republican Idaho Legislature chose prominent Boise attorney William Borah to replace Dubois in the Senate.
Dubois lived the rest of his life in Washington, D.C. He made attempts at writing and business, which largely failed. He supported Champ Clark for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912, but after Clark's defeat he worked for the Woodrow Wilson campaign in 1912 and 1916. His last major political action was in 1918 when he supported the election of various politicians from both parties in Idaho to support Wilson's progressive agenda, including Borah. Dubois served on the Board of Ordinance from 1918 to 1920 and on a commission on U.S. boundary disputes with Canada from 1924 until his death on February 14, 1930. He was buried in Blackfoot.
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