Alvin Braynen

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Alvin Braynen

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| office = Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas

| primeminister = Lynden Pindling

| term_start = 9 February 1967

| term_end = 18 October 1972

| predecessor = Robert Symonette

| successor = Arlington Butler

| birth_name = Alvin Rudolph Braynen

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1904|12|6}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1992|10|9|1904|12|6}}

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| party = United Bahamian Party

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Sir Alvin Braynen was a Bahamian politician and former Speaker of the House of Assembly.

Braynen was born on 6 December 1904 at Current{{cite web |title=Sir Alvin is far from a mulatto |url=https://www.tribune242.com/news/2012/apr/10/sir-alvin-is-far-from-a-mulatto/ |website=www.tribune242.com |language=en}} on Eleuthera.{{cite web |title=Personalities Caribbean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NF1sAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Personalities Limited |language=en |date=1983}} He worked as consultant to Shell Oil from 1969 to 1982.{{cite web |title=The International Who's who 1983-84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_xJ4R0t9G3oC |publisher=Europa Publications |language=en |date=1983}}

Braynen was elected to the House of Assembly in 1935, and was continuously elected for 35 years. He was a member of United Bahamian Party until 1967, when he run as independent.{{cite web |title=Today in History: December 6 |url=https://ournews.bs/today-in-history-december-6/ |website=Our News |date=7 December 2022}} He was deputy speaker from 1949 to 1953 and from 1963 to 1966. He served as the Speaker of the House of Assembly from February 1967 to October 1972.

Braynen was appointed as the high commissioner for the Bahamas in London from 1973 to 1977.

He died on 9 October 1992.{{cite web |title=Sir Alvin Rudolph Braynen (1904-1992) - Find a... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116218180/alvin-rudolph-braynen |website=www.findagrave.com |language=en}}