Carl August Gulbranson (6 August 1831 – 19 July 1910) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the
Conservative Party
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.
Personal life
He was born in
Kristiania
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as a son of merchant and forest owner
Hans Gulbranson and his second wife Helene Andersen.
His half-sister Claudine married
Jørgen Meinich.
In June 1862 in
Kongsvinger
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he married Minda Ramm Juell from
Sogndal
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. She was a daughter of Fredrik Christian Juell,
[ mayor of Sogndal from 1842 to 1851. Their son Carl Gulbranson became a high-ranking military officer, whilst their daughter Lilla married Minister of Foreign Affairs Johannes Irgens.
Minda's sister Vally was married to surgeon Fredrik Gottlieb Olsen Ramm;]
Career
He finished his secondary education in 1848 and graduated from university with the cand.jur. degree in 1854. After two years in England and France, he worked as a jurist until 1861. He reached as high as being acting district stipendiary magistrate.[
In 1861 he became a partner in his father's timber business, and when his father died in 1868 he became co-owner together with his brother. In the 1870s he bought his brother's share in the company. He also bought large areas of land in ]Namdalen
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and Enebakk
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The parish of ''Enebak'' was established as a municipality ...
. He died in Enebakk in July 1910.[
He was against ]parliamentarism
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and was at times a political ally of King Oscar II. His organizational platform was the November Association, founded in 1880. In 1882 he was elected as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from the constituency ''Kristiania, Hønefos og Kongsvinger'', but he never met in Parliament. He participated in creating an alternative draft of the Norwegian Constitution
nb, Kongeriket Norges Grunnlov
nn, Kongeriket Noregs Grunnlov
, jurisdiction = Kingdom of Norway
, date_created =10 April - 16 May 1814
, date_ratified =16 May 1814
, system =Constitutional monarchy
, ...
, but it was not accepted by any parliamentary politician. Gulbranson also contributed to the November Association's publication ''Budstikken'', but both the association and ''Budstikken'' were dissolved in 1887. He was then less active in politics, but issued the pro-royalist pamphlet ''Kongemagtens Stilling'' in 1898.[
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References
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1831 births
1910 deaths
Politicians from Oslo
Judges from Oslo
Businesspeople from Oslo
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Deputy members of the Storting