Gill Gulbrandsen (1868-1940) was a Republican North Dakota state senator during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Ottestad, Norway in 1868, Gulbrandsen emigrated to Bismarck, North Dakota in 1890 and became a bank president. Gulbrandsen became a leader of the conservative Independent Voters Association faction of the state GOP in 1918 and accused the Nonpartisan League of supporting fiscally irresponsible policies, of attempting to destroy the urban middle-class with policies favoring under-educated farmers, and of attempting to replace the American work ethic with European socialism. Gulbrandsen went on to serve as a state senator and challenge the NPL's hostile takeover of the North Dakota Republican Party, but he died in 1940, 16 years before the NPL merged into the Democratic Party.