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 and
Enebakk. He died in Enebakk in July 1910. He was against
parliamentarism 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, 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. ==References==