George Green was a Northern Irish unionist politician.
George Green | |
|---|---|
| Member of North Down Borough Council | |
| In office 19 May 1993 – 21 May 1997 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Miskelly |
| Succeeded by | Anne Wilson |
| Constituency | Bangor West |
| In office 15 May 1985 – 19 May 1993 | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Ann Thompson |
| Constituency | Abbey |
| In office 30 May 1973 – 15 May 1985 | |
| Preceded by | Council created |
| Succeeded by | District abolished |
| Constituency | North Down Area B |
| Member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention for North Down | |
| In office 1975–1976 | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | NI Conservative (from 1989) |
| Other political affiliations | UUP (1985–89) UPUP (1980–85) UUUP (1975–80) Vanguard (1973–75) Independent Loyalist (1973) |
Biography
editGreen was the chairman of the Ulster Special Constabulary Association (USCA), a group which focussed on opposition to the Irish Republican Army.[1] He was elected to North Down Borough Council in 1973 as an independent loyalist.[2]
At the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, Green stood in North Down for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, but he was not elected.[3] Through his role in the USCA, he was a prominent leader of the Ulster Workers' Council strike,[1] and was able to gain election to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.[3] Soon after, he left Vanguard to join the United Ulster Unionist Party split,[1] but this was collapsing by 1980, and Green instead joined James Kilfedder's Ulster Popular Unionist Party, for which he very narrowly missed being elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982.[3]
Green left the Popular Unionists, and was re-elected at the 1985 local elections for the Ulster Unionist Party, then in 1989[4] and 1993 for the Conservatives in Northern Ireland, standing down in 1997.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c Henry Patterson and Eric P. Kaufmann, Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945, p.185
- ^ The Local Government Elections 1973-1981: North Down", Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ a b c North Down 1973-1982, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ Local Government Elections 1985 - 1989: North Down, Northern Ireland Elections]
- ^ North Down Borough Council Elections 1993-2005, Northern Ireland Elections
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