Allen Banks Burch

Allen Banks Burch (1894 – May 31, 1948) was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from January 8, 1945, to May 31, 1948.

He was elected to the supreme court to fill the seat vacated by the retirement of justice John Shaw Dawson. He stood as a Republican for position 7 on the court, and when elected was the youngest member of the court. He was succeeded by Austin M. Cowan after his unexpected death.

He wrote the minority opinion for the 1947 Reorganization Act that invalidated all sections of the 1945 Reorganization Act deemed to violate the state constitution.

He was a member of the American Bar Association and the Kansas Bar Association.

He was born in Carthage, Missouri in 1894 to a medical doctor, growing up in Fredonia, Kansas. and joined an old law firm in Wichita. He had the fatal attack whilst playing bridge with his wife and friends. He left behind his wife May, a son Howard M. Burch and two daughters Joan Burch and Betty Dreher.