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Article: BRANHAM'S RECORD SHINES IN 'STARS' HE DEVELOPED / CONNECTICUT MUTUAL CITY LEADER RETIRES AFTER 29 YEARS OF BUILDING AGENCY 16-FOLD
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- July 4, 1987
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About 12 agents were producing annual premium of about $100,000 for
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Oklahoma back in 1958, when
William E. Branham became general agent.
Branham was only 28, but he had sold everything from magazines
to mops during his boyhood and college years, and he had been an
agent for Connecticut Mutual since 1951. Most important, he had set
out from the beginning to become a general agent.
"I wanted to go with a firm that had the general agency system,
because it was a way to get into business for myself,'' said
Branham. "My father, Don L. Branham, had owned Branham Office Supply
here in Oklahoma City, so I had grown up with that idea.
"I thought ...