Background
Branch, Harllee was born on December 24, 1879 in Polkton, North Carolina, United States. Son of James Grimes and Harriett Elizabeth (Harllee) Branch.
government official journalist
Branch, Harllee was born on December 24, 1879 in Polkton, North Carolina, United States. Son of James Grimes and Harriett Elizabeth (Harllee) Branch.
Student Oak Ridge (North Carolina) Institute.
Various positions as typesetter, composing room foreman, linotype operator and proofreader, Charlotte (North Carolina), Observer, Charleston (South Carolina.), Evening Post, Augusta (Georgia) Herald and Augusta Chronicle until 1903. With Atlanta Journal, 1903-1933 (except 18 months as executive secretary to mayor of Atlanta), as linotype operator, reporter, city editor, Washington correspondent. Editor Panama City (Florida) News-Herald 1950-1952.
Executive assistant to postmaster general, 1933-1934.
Assistant postmaster general, 1934-1938. Member Civil Aeronautics Board, 1938-1948, vice chairman 1938-1940, chairman 1940-1941.
Member United States Government Interdepartmental Committee on International Civil Aviation Affairs, 1935-1938. Member United States delegation which negotiated first transport agreement with United Kingdom, Canada and Erie, 1935.
Member United States delegation which negotiated the Bermuda bilateral air transport agreement with United Kingdom, 1946.
Member United States delegation to Assembly of Provisional International Civil Aviation Ongn., Montreal, 1946, member United States delegation to conference of first International Aviation Organisation, Montreal, 1947. Member United States delegations which negotiated bilateral air transport agreements with the Netherlands, Mexico, Australia, Argentina and several other countries. Trustee Carnegie Library, Atlanta, 1910-1912.
Official messenger Georgia Electoral College, 1916.
Former member United States Senate and House Press Galleries. Former member White House Corrs.
Association.
Member Civil Aeronautics Board, 1938-1948, vice chairman 1938-1940, chairman 1940-1941. Member United States Government Interdepartmental Committee on International Civil Aviation Affairs, 1935-1938. Member United States delegation which negotiated first transport agreement with United Kingdom, Canada and Erie, 1935.
Member United States delegation which negotiated the Bermuda bilateral air transport agreement with United Kingdom, 1946.
Member United States delegation to Assembly of Provisional International Civil Aviation Ongn., Montreal, 1946. Member United States delegations which negotiated bilateral air transport agreements with the Netherlands, Mexico, Australia, Argentina and several other countries.
Trustee Carnegie Library, Atlanta, 1910-1912.
Married Bernice Simpson, May 28, 1901. Children: Elizabeth Simpson (Mistress Wilbur King), Martha Harllee (Mistress Marion Davis Seaborn), Harllee, Junior, Bernice Virginia (Mistress Donald A. Leslie), James Alexander, John Ellison.