Oliver Winslow Branch
American judge (1878–1956)
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Oliver Winslow Branch (October 4, 1879 – February 6, 1956)[1][2] was an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1926 to 1946, and chief justice from 1946 to 1949.[3]
Branch was the oldest of four children of New York attorney Oliver Ernesto Branch and Sarah M. Chase, of Weare, New Hampshire.[4] He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1902, and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1904, and was appointed to the New Hampshire Superior Court in 1913.[1][2] He was appointed to the state supreme court in 1926.[2] In 1938, Branch was also president of the New Hampshire Bar Association.[5] Branch retired from the supreme court upon reaching the statutory age limit on his 70th birthday, on October 4, 1949.[1][6]
Branch married Isabel Dow Hogle of Rochester, New York, on November 13, 1910, with whom he had 5 children. Branch died at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the age of 76.[2]
