Charles McCullough

Charles McCullough, sometimes known as Charlie McCullough, (18 December 1923 – 4 October 2014)[1] was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. He was born in Belfast.

For the American politician and civil rights activist, see Charles A. McCullough II. For the baseball player, see Charlie McCullough.

McCullough was based on the Shankill Road.[2] He was a member of the founding executive of Ulster Protestant Action, in 1956.[3] He was elected to Belfast City Council for the group in 1958,[4] topping the poll.[5] He left the group before the next elections, in 1961, joining the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).[6]

Cullough secured re-election under his new party colours and, by 1965, he was the chair of its Improvement Committee. He resigned from this following a dispute over the naming of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge; he had instead hoped it would be named for Edward Carson, and believed that this name had been rejected due to party indiscipline.[7]

In 1968, McCullough was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland.[8] He resigned from the UUP in September 1970,[9] and became a founder member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) the following year.[10] The Senate ceased to meet in 1972,[8] and, although McCullough remained a supporter of the DUP, he did not stand in any further elections. On 4 October 2014, he died at the age of 90.[11]

References
  1. "OBITUARY: DUP founder and submarine hero Charles McCullough". NewsLetter. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  2. Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.79
  3. Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.82
  4. Clifford Smyth, Ian Paisley: Voice of Protestant Ulster, p.9
  5. Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.89
  6. Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.100
  7. Ian Budge and Cornelius O'Leary, Belfast: approach to crisis: a study of Belfast politics, 1613-1970, p.163
  8. "The Northern Ireland Senate, 1921-72", Northern Ireland Elections
  9. Richard Deutsch, Northern Ireland 1969-73 a chronology of events, p.127
  10. Official report of debates, Issue 12, Northern Ireland Assembly (1982), p.155
  11. http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/shankill-unionist-charles-mccullough-dies-1-6379872
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