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.

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. 1 2 "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. ↑ "Shankill unionist Charles McCullough dies - Belfast Newsletter". Archived from the original on 26 November 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
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