Joseph Branch (August 3, 1817 – November 23, 1867), also referred to as Josephus Branch, was an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Florida Attorney General.

[1][2][3] Branch was born in Enfield, North Carolina on August 3, 1817.

[4] Branch had been a lawyer in the city of Tallahassee in the Florida Territory in the 1830s and 1840s.

With his second wife, Mary Jones Polk, Branch had four children: Mary Polk, Lawrence O'Bryan, Lucia Eugenia, and Joseph Gerald Branch.

The latter would go on to become a member of the Florida Legislature, as well as a successful planter in Desha County, Arkansas until his assassination in 1867 on his plantation.