{{Short description|American judge}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dean Frederick Bryson | image = | image_size = | caption = | office1 = 77th Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | term_start1 = 1970 | term_end1 = 1979 | appointer1 = Tom McCall | predecessor1 = Gordon Sloan | successor1 = Edwin J. Peterson | office2 = Member of the Oregon Senate | term_start2 = 1953 | term_end2 = 1955 | office3 = Member of the Oregon House of Representatives | term_start3 = 1943 | term_end3 = 1945 | birth_date = {{birth date|1910|9|27}}<ref name="cdi">[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP83-R2D California Death Index]</ref> | birth_place = {{flagicon|Oregon}} Portland, Oregon | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|4|15|1910|9|27}} | death_place = Fresno, California<ref name="cdi" /> | party = Republican | spouse = Marjorie Bryson }} '''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.<ref name=obit>{{cite news|title=Former justice Bryson dies at 84|work=The Oregonian|date=April 19, 1995}}</ref> He earned his law degree in 1934 from Northwestern College of Law in Portland<ref name=obit/> and was admitted to the bar the same year.<ref name=obit/>
He was later a member of the State Marine Board and National Labor Relations Board.<ref name=obit/> In 1959, Bryson began serving on the Oregon State Bar Association’s Board of Governors, continuing through 1961.<ref name=OSB>[http://www.osbar.org/_docs/leadership/bog/PastBOGmembers.pdf Past Presidents.] Oregon State Bar. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.</ref> That year, he was also the organization’s president.<ref name=OSB/>
==Politics== Bryson was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives as a Republican and served from 1943 to 1945.<ref name=obit/> From 1953 to 1955 he served in the Oregon State Senate.<ref name=obit/> In 1961, Governor Mark Hatfield appointed him to the Multnomah County Circuit Court.<ref name=obit/> There he served for nine years and was elected as the presiding judge of the court in 1968.<ref name=obit/> 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.<ref name=obit/>
On October 23, 1970, Bryson was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court by Oregon Governor Tom McCall to replace Gordon Sloan who had resigned.<ref name=gov>[https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/records/governors_guides.aspx Oregon State Archives: Governor's Records Guides.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.</ref><ref name=OSC>[https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/state/judicial/supreme.aspx Oregon Blue Book: Supreme Court Justices of Oregon.] Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.</ref> Earlier in the year, Bryson defeated Sloan in his re-election bid.<ref>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.</ref> 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.<ref name=OSC/>
==Later life and family== Bryson was married to Marjorie Bryson for 56 years.<ref name=obit/> The couple had three daughters named Joy, Gayl and Lynne.<ref name=obit/>
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