American judge
Dean Frederick Bryson (September 27, 1910 – April 15, 1995) was an American attorney in the state of Oregon, United States. He was the 77th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Previously he was a circuit court judge for Multnomah County, Oregon, a legislator in the Oregon House of Representatives, served in the Oregon Senate, and was president of the state bar association.
Early life
Bryson was born in Portland, Oregon.[2] He earned his law degree in 1934 from Northwestern College of Law in Portland[2] and was admitted to the bar the same year.[2]
He was later a member of the State Marine Board and National Labor Relations Board.[2] In 1959, Bryson began serving on the Oregon State Bar Association’s Board of Governors, continuing through 1961.[3] That year, he was also the organization’s president.[3]
Politics
Bryson was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican and served from 1943 to 1945.[2] From 1953 to 1955 he served in the Oregon State Senate.[2] In 1961, Governor Mark Hatfield appointed him to the Multnomah County Circuit Court.[2] There he served for nine years and was elected as the presiding judge of the court in 1968.[2] As a judge on that court, he made news for issuing a restraining order to protect a Navy recruiter working at Portland State University from 36 students in 1970 during the Vietnam War.[2]
On October 23, 1970, Bryson was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by Oregon Governor Tom McCall to replace Gordon Sloan who had resigned.[4][5] Earlier in the year, Bryson defeated Sloan in his re-election bid.[6] Bryson won re-election to a second six-year term in 1976; however, he resigned before the end of that term on April 1, 1979.[5]
Later life and family
Bryson was married to Marjorie Bryson for 56 years.[2] The couple had three daughters named Joy, Gayl and Lynne.[2]
References
- ^ a b California Death Index
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Former justice Bryson dies at 84". The Oregonian. April 19, 1995.
- ^ a b Past Presidents. Oregon State Bar. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
- ^ Oregon State Archives: Governor's Records Guides. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
- ^ a b Oregon Blue Book: Supreme Court Justices of Oregon. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
- ^ The 1970 Elections in the West, The 1970 Election in Oregon, L. Harmon Zeigler; Barbara Leigh Smith, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2. (Jun., 1971), pp. 325-338.
