Frank Branch

Frank Richard Branch (May 7, 1944 – October 22, 2018) was a Canadian politician.

Frank Branch
Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
for Nepisiguit-Chaleur
In office
1974–1995
Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
for Gloucester County
In office
1970–1974
Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
for Nepisiguit
In office
2003–2006
Personal details
Born(1944-05-07)May 7, 1944
Bathurst, New Brunswick
DiedOctober 22, 2018(2018-10-22) (aged 74)
Bathurst, New Brunswick
Political partyLiberal
ResidenceBathurst, New Brunswick

Branch was born in May 7, 1944 in Bathurst, New Brunswick. A Liberal, he was first elected to the New Brunswick Legislature to the multi-member riding for Gloucester County in the 1970 provincial election He was re-elected to the legislature for the single member riding of Nepisiguit-Chaleur in 1974, 1978, 1982, 1987 and 1991. He served as speaker from 1987-1991 but was neither elected speaker nor named to the cabinet following the 1991 elections and thus did not run for re-election in 1995.

While retired from politics, he chaired a regional forestry marketing board for eight years before he sought re-election in the new, though largely unchanged, riding of Nepisiguit in 2003, where he defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Joel Bernard by a margin of nearly 2-to-1.

In October 2005, the North Shore Forest Products marketing board, of which Branch is general manager, was taken under investigation for unspecified reasons. On January 13, 2006, Branch left the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent pending the outcome of the investigation and on March 23, 2006, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that he had been fired.

He served as chair of the legislature's Public Accounts Committee from the 2003 election until he left the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent.

He did not seek re-election in 2006. He died of cancer in Bathurst, New Brunswick on October 22, 2018 at the age of 74.[1][2]

References
  1. "Obituary for Frank Branch". Telegraph-Journal. Brunswick News. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  2. "Former Speaker and longtime Liberal MLA Frank Branch has died". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
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